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Paul Crouppen briefs Richland council on Tri City Cares' challenge to proposed wind project
Summary
Paul Crouppen of Tri City Cares updated the council on the group's multi‑year legal challenge to Scout Clean Energy's planned wind project, said briefs to the Washington Supreme Court are due Feb. 20, and warned the governor's remand and an executive order accelerating permitting could affect local input and the project's timeline.
Paul Crouppen, a volunteer with Tri City Cares, told the Richland City Council on Tuesday that his group is preparing a 50‑page brief for the Washington Supreme Court in a long‑running dispute over Scout Clean Energy’s proposed wind project.
Crouppen said the litigation, which has involved environmental impact statements, agency recommendations and parallel adjudication over roughly four years, centers on whether state regulators ignored scientific findings when the governor remanded a decision to the state energy commission. “You ignored the science,” he said of the governor’s action, calling the remand “irrational” and “arbitrary and capricious.” He said briefs…
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