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Allegations of Economic Injury Not Sufficient to Establish Standing to Challenge Governmental Action Under State Environmental Quality Review Act

The Second Department affirmed Supreme Court’s dismissal of a petition brought by the National Oil Recyclers Association (NORA) challenging the NYC Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP’s) finding that proposed amendment s to the NYC rules regarding emissions from use of grade numbers 4 and 6 fuel oils would lead to reduced emissions and would have no significant adverse impacts on the quality of the environment.  The court explained that NORA did not have standing to challenge the finding and the DEP’s failure to provide an explanation for not publishing the proposed rules in its yearly regulatory agenda did not invalidate the rules:

To establish standing to challenge governmental action under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (ECL art 8, hereinafter SEQRA), the petitioners must show (1) that they will suffer an environmental injury that is in some way different from that of the public at large, i.e., that there is an “injury in fact,” and (2) that the alleged injury falls within the zone of interest sought to be protected or promoted by the statute under which the governmental action was taken … .

Allegations of potential economic injury alone are insufficient to confer standing under SEQRA … . Here, the first and second causes of action allege the potential of economic harm, but they do not sufficiently allege that the petitioners will suffer an environmental injury that is in some way different from that of the public at large. Such allegations are insufficient to confer standing to assert the first and second causes of action … . Matter of County Oil Co Inc v NYC Dept Envtl Protection, 2013 NY Slip Op 07474, 2nd Dept 11-13-13

 

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