Just one month after Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of Sierra Club challenging the Sacramento air district for rubber-stamping permits allowing Inter-State Oil Company to transfer Bakken crude oil from rail to truck without public or environmental review, the agency reversed course telling the oil company to cease all crude trans-loading operations. Today, Inter-State responded in a letter to the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District saying the company will stop handling crude as of November 14.
[Note: this lawsuit does not change the status of proposed transit of crude by rail through Fremont.]
[Note: this lawsuit does not change the status of proposed transit of crude by rail through Fremont.]