The developer of a 40.6 million square foot California development project for a large-scale logistics operation (“World Logistics Center Project [Project]”) and various.
MORENO VALLEY (CN) A coalition of environmental activist groups reached a $47 million settlement Thursday with the developer of a Southern California mega-warehouse who promised to incorporate green technology at the facility and invest in conservation efforts for the surrounding area.
For the better part of a decade, residents of Moreno Valley, California have been aware of the World Logistics Center warehouse project. Environmental advocacy groups called the proposed 40.6 million-square-foot facility a “climate and air-quality disaster” that would emit tons of greenhouse gases in the region.
In 2015, the groups sued developer Highland Fairview and the city after Moreno Valley approved the project. In 2018, a Riverside Superior Court judge ruled the project’s environmental review was thin on details on its carbon footprint. Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, sued the city again in 2020 after the city approved a revised report on the project’s environ
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Traffic congestion and pollution were the key drivers of the plaintiffs action, which highlighted the thousands of big rigs coming and going from the site daily and clogged surface streets and freeway lanes that would ensue. (Shutterstock / ilmarinfoto)
MORENO VALLEY, CA Litigation over a mega warehousing project in Moreno Valley that opponents said would raise pollution to staggering levels and create massive traffic jams formally ended Thursday after more than five years of legal wrangling, with the developer agreeing to a range of compromises intended to offset the environmental impacts of the 2,600-acre complex. This legal agreement shows that freight and logistics projects must, at the very least, include measures that allow residents to live and breathe in their community, said Center for Biological Diversity attorney Aruna Prabhala. As the warehouse trend accelerates, California officials need to focus on fighting the threats these huge facilities pose to our