The Attorney General and environmental groups used CEQA to reduce climate pollution and other harms from the West Valley Logistics Center, a complex of seven industrial warehouses totaling over 3.4 million square feet. Located next to a community of color in the City of Fontana, the warehouses would add more than 2,000 diesel trucks per day to an area already suffering from some of the worst air quality in the nation.
In a settlement of the litigation, the project proponents agreed to take concrete steps to reduce the warehouse’s greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollution. For example, the project must require trucks and heavy equipment to meet specific emissions standards and design buildings to support the use of electric vehicles and machinery. In addition, the project must adopt energy and water-efficiency measures.