SACRAMENTO --- Earthjustice has filed a lawsuit alleging that a California air quality agency has granted an illegal and clandestine permit allowing oil trains carrying Bakken crude to transfer their dangerously volatile cargo into oil trucks at a rail yard seven miles from downtown Sacramento. According to the Sept. 23 complaint, an existing
Bakken Oil Rolls Into California, Bringing Air Hazards Along With It
By modifying language on a permit to allow for oil shipments without an environmental review, one attorney says a California air quality agency “marks a very troubling turn,” with regulators “entering into backroom deals with the industry they’re supposed to be regulating.”