For over sixty years, Sive, Paget & Riesel has been a recognized leader in environmental, land use, and municipal law and litigation. The Firm has unparalleled experience assisting clients with environmental reviews, brownfield cleanups and redevelopment, environmental permitting, environmental aspects of real estate management, and due diligence reviews and risk assessments for corporate and real estate transactions. In recent years, the Firm has built new practices in project finance, offshore wind and other renewables, climate change, and resiliency that draw on the firm’s historical strengths and experiences.
About Daniel Riesel
Daniel Riesel has litigated a wide variety of cases which include numerous environmental matters, white collar defense, civil rights, and commercial matters. His litigation has resulted in overturning Army Corps of Engineers wetland rules, vacating EPA’s promulgation of ocean dumping rules, and a dismissal of restrictions on the broad reach of RCRA citizen suits. Since 1980, Mr. Riesel has been an active participant in numerous CERCLA administrative and judicial actions, representing various Fortune 500 corporations. His litigation has resulted in the establishment of CERCLA defenses and the recovery of significant response costs. He recently successfully represented several industrial clients charged with environmental crimes. Mr. Riesel is a former Chief of the Environmental Protection Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York.
About Meg Holden
Meg Holden is a partner at Sive, Paget, & Riesel, P.C. whose practice focuses on complex environmental litigation, site remediation, and regulatory matters under federal and state environmental law. She represents clients in disputes involving contaminated sites, emerging contaminants, and environmental review and permitting challenges, and regularly advises on environmental risk in the context of real estate transactions.
Meg has significant experience litigating matters under CERCLA, RCRA, NEPA, SEQRA, and the New York Navigation Law, including litigation involving groundwater contamination caused by PFAS. She regularly advises clients on the acquisition, investigation, and remediation of contaminated properties, including sites subject to the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program and the Connecticut Transfer Act.
In addition, Meg advises renewable energy and climate technology clients on environmental permitting and review requirements and represents Equinor Wind US in the permitting and development of the Empire Wind offshore wind project.
