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...organization called Concerned About Trident to preserve the canal. After construction of the base began last October, they joined with two summer residents (one is Economist Walter Heller, a presidential adviser in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations) and several environmental groups and went to court. Their attorney, David Sive, who is one of the U.S.'s leading environmental lawyers, focused on what he felt was the weak point in the Navy's justification for the base: it had not filed a proper environmental impact statement, a document that the National Environmental Policy Act requires of all federal agencies...
...Navy had in fact spent $600,000 producing a five-volume statement. But Sive charges that the statement was written not before but after the decision to build the base was made. Trident opponents also claim that while the document did touch on the base's potential effects on wildlife, it completely overlooked the effects on people-the increase in local population and the need for new schools, sewers, roads and police. Says local Attorney Philip Best: "The Navy was looking at gnats and ignoring the elephants." Environmental ists moved for a temporary, pretrial injunction to halt construction...
...know what his politics are and we are not interested," Rubuen R. Sive, president of the alumni club, said Friday...
Standard of Sincerity. Well and good-but courts generally refuse to hear litigants who have no "standing," meaning a personal stake in the outcome. Sive's clients seemingly lacked that requisite. Even so, he had the answer: his own victory in the 1965 court decision to stop construction of a big Consolidated Edison plant at Storm King Mountain near the Hudson. In that pioneering case, conservationists won the right to represent the public as "aggrieved parties" to protect the environment...
Later decisions by the courts will probably refine that standard. Nonetheless, Moore's opinion may well serve as a precedent for stopping other controversial public works projects that involve dikes-for example, an airport extension into the Columbia River at Portland, Ore. Even more important, says Lawyer Sive, "the public interest in environmental resources is now a legally protected interest...