"Instead of coming up with a cohesive and thoughtful plan, the board is asking communities to take a leap of faith and just blindly trust that the agency will somehow transform this project at some point in the future," Adrian Martinez, an attorney for Earthjustice, an environmental advocacy group, said in a statement. He said the organization was "deeply disappointed" by the vote.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 01, 2018 22:18 UTC