The World

Storm King

In the 1960’s attempts to build a power plant on Storm King Mountain, on New York’s Hudson River, mobilized citizens to sue the power utility. That land mark case set a legal president commonly used in environmental law today.

Nearly half a century ago, a remarkable battle over plans to build an electricity pumping station on the Hudson River launched a new branch of the law – environmental law. The facility was planned for Storm King, an iconic mountain known as the gateway to the Hudson Highlands. Producer Jim Metzner recounts the epic story.