Legal Opinion
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 5, 2005No. 05 Civ. 762(SAS)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiffs are a group of environmental organizations and concerned citizens. They are challenging an ongoing project, to be carried out by the Army Corps of Engineers (“Army Corps”), to deepen shipping channels in the New York-New Jersey Harbor through dredging and blasting of the Harbor floor. The Harbor Deepening Project (“HDP”) is intended to open the Harbor to the newer, larger and deeper-bottomed cargo vessels on which the modern shipping industry depends. Part of the HDP will cut through highly contaminated sections of Newark…
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