A federal court on Monday dismissed an environmental group’s lawsuit seeking to force the federal government to install renewable energy when rebuilding communities hit by climate disasters, instead of recreating the fossil fuel-based systems that were previously in place.
The plaintiffs didn’t establish standing, or that their injuries were “plausibly caused” by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s failure to define “resilient” and “resiliency” in a rulemaking, Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District of Columbia found.
The plaintiffs, represented by the Center for Biological Diversity, wanted to limit FEMA’s discretion by prioritizing certain types of ...