City council vote August 19 will determine if port neglected to do necessary environmental assessments for climate change-causing coal and petcoke exports
On behalf of Sierra Club, Communities for a Better Environment and Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice is challenging the Port of Long Beach’s approval of two controversial agreements, which allow the Port to annually export more than 1 million tons of coal and petcoke, a byproduct of oil refining, for the next 15 years. Petcoke…