Coastal Zone Act Violation Challenge Dismissed Over Environmentalists' "Lack Of Standing"

Delaware Sierra Club ‏

The #CoastalZone industrial board has gone "off the record" again to deliberate over whether we have standing. #cza.

@GovernorMarkell-appointed Coastal Zone Industrial Board has voted to approve the refinery's motion to dismiss our appeal based on standing.

(AP) Randall Chase reports ~ Delaware panel dismisses appeal of refinery permit

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2013/07/15/2623384/delaware-panel-hears-appeal-of.html#storylink=cpy

Members of Delaware's Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to dismiss the appeal by the Sierra Club and the Delaware Audubon Society, ruling that they had no standing to challenge an air quality permit granted to PBF Energy in May.

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2013/07/15/2623384/delaware-panel-hears-appeal-of.html#storylink=cpy

Environmentalists argued that the crude oil transfer operation was not allowed under Delaware's Coastal Zone Act, a 42-year-old law designed to protect the state's coastal environment from industrial pollution. The permit involves the transfer of crude oil received by train at a new rail facility to barges for shipment to another PBF refinery in Paulsboro, N.J.

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2013/07/15/2623384/delaware-panel-hears-appeal-of.html#storylink=cpy

 Google "Sierra Club lacks standing"......

What's next, I wonder? None of this addresses the facts considered in the violations challenge.

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