Environmental Groups Join DL and NJ Opposing Army Corps Dredging

On October 30th, as described in this earlier post, Delaware filed a suit to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from dredging the Delaware River for a new shipping channel. New Jersey joined the suit a few days later.

Yesterday, a coalition of environmental groups intervened in the suit, adding their own claims against the project, including alleged violations the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, and Delaware State law. The groups include Delaware Riverkeeper Network, National Wildlife Federation, New Jersey Environmental Federation, Clean Water Action, and the Delaware Nature Society. You can read the groups' press release here, and an article from the Press of Atlantic City here. A hearing on a preliminary injunction is scheduled for December 8th.