A California court on Tuesday tossed out the environmental review and city approvals for a planned crude oil storage project in the Port of Long Beach.<\/p>\n
The decision is a win for Communities for a Better Environment, which sued in 2024 after the Long Beach City Council certified the environmental analysis for World Oil Terminals\u2019 plan to build two 25,000-barrel storage tanks at its Ribost Terminal.<\/p>\n
Under the state court order, Long Beach cannot implement the project until it has completed a new environmental impact report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act, the state\u2019s version of the National Environmental Policy Act.<\/p>\n
The court \u201cconcludes that the City committed a prejudicial abuse of discretion by certifying the Final Environmental Impact Report and approving the Project,\u201d said Judge Maurice Leiter of the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County, in a ruling Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California court on Tuesday tossed out the environmental review and city approvals for a planned crude oil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-214773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}