{"id":251922,"date":"2024-05-30T21:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/environmental-groups-challenge-highway-expansion-project-in-court\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T00:24:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T00:24:45","slug":"environmental-groups-challenge-highway-expansion-project-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/environmental-groups-challenge-highway-expansion-project-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Groups Challenge Highway Expansion Project in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-wysiwyg=\"\">\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">ALAMEDA COUNTY \u2013 Environmental groups <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>filed suit today<\/strong><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"> to challenge the Yolo I-80 highway expansion project. Citing a flawed environmental impact report that understates the true impacts to traffic, climate and air quality, the groups petitioned the courts to require Caltrans to redo the analysis of the project and fully mitigate its environmental impacts.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The project to expand I-80 from Davis to Sacramento through the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area would increase greenhouse gas pollution and harm sensitive wildlife.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), representing the Planning and Conservation League, along with the Center for Biological Diversity, raised several issues in its complaint.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">First, Caltrans improperly chopped this project into two pieces to use funding in illegitimate ways and obscure environmental impacts, as documented by <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">a Caltrans&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/press-releases\/environmental-groups-challenge-highway-expansion-project-court\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on www.nrdc.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALAMEDA COUNTY \u2013 Environmental groups filed suit today to challenge the Yolo I-80 highway expansion project. Citing a flawed environmental impact report that understates the true impacts to traffic, climate and air quality, the groups petitioned the courts to require Caltrans to redo the analysis of the project and fully mitigate its environmental impacts.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":221791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Environmental Groups Challenge Highway Expansion Project in Court - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/press-releases\/environmental-groups-challenge-highway-expansion-project-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Environmental Groups Challenge Highway Expansion Project in Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ALAMEDA COUNTY \u2013 Environmental groups filed suit today to challenge the Yolo I-80 highway expansion project. 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