City of Long Beach v. City of Los Angeles

This lawsuit was one of seven lawsuits that asserted challenges under the California Environmental Quality Act to City of Los Angeles approvals for an approximately 185-acre intermodal railyard facility located in the cities of Los Angeles, Carson, and Long Beach. The petitions asserted a number of failings in the environmental review of the project, including climate change-related shortcomings. In particular, the City of Long Beach petition alleged that the review failed to provide an adequate analysis of, and mitigation for, the project’s individual and cumulative greenhouse gas and climate change impacts, and that the environmental impact report (EIR) failed to discuss how the project would affect attainment of greenhouse gas reduction goals under AB 32.