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Sierra Club and San Francisco Baykeeper's Notice of Motion and Memorandum to Intervene in Phillips 66 Company v. City of Richmond to protect significant interests in the validity of Richmond Ordinance No. 05-20 N.S., which prohibits the handling and storage of coal or petroleum coke (“petcoke”) at any facility in the City of Richmond.

Sierra Club and San Francisco Baykeeper's Notice of Motion and Memorandum to Intervene in Levin Richmond Terminal Corporation v. City of Richmond to protect significant interests in the validity of Richmond Ordinance No. 05-20 N.S., which prohibits the handling and storage of coal or petroleum coke (“petcoke”) at any facility in the City of Richmond.

Community groups representing people living in Louisiana and Texas, along with Earthjustice, are submitting comments asking EPA to consider their communities to be “potentially exposed and susceptible subpopulations.” These communities live in the shadows of facilities that release toxic chemicals into air, water and soil, many of which are produced and released in high volumes in the Cancer Alley area of Louisiana and the Gulf region in both states.