A fuel distributor has agreed to stop unloading train shipments of crude oil at a Sacramento-area transfer station after the county's top air quality official said his agency mistakenly skirted the state's environmental rules by issuing a permit for the operation.
The Sacramento Bee reports InterState Oil Company said Wednesday that as of Nov. 7 it will no longer use McClellan Business Park as a transfer station for crude shipments to the Bay Area.
The move settles a lawsuit by the environmental group EarthJustice that contended the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality District Sacramento should not have granted InterState a permit without a full environmental impact review.
The suit said officials and InterState failed to review the potential hazards of running crude oil through neighborhoods.
Air district head Larry Greene conceded a full review should have been done.
