New York sued the Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to stop a plan to dump tens of millions of cubic yards of dredged sediments at a site in eastern Long Island Sound.
The lawsuit, announced Aug. 17 by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) and state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman (D), challenges the agency’s decision to designate the permanent open-water disposal site, saying it violates the Ocean Dumping Act and the Coastal Zone Management Act (Rosado v. Pruitt, E.D.N.Y., No. 17-cv-04843, complaint 8/17/17).
The state leaders, with the lawsuit, opened up another front in their ...
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