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