Stockton’s port commissioners have rescinded their approval of a project to create hydrogen from methane, settling a lawsuit brought by two environmental groups that alleged the process would have created air pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions.
The settlement also says that if BayoTech, the Houston-based company that developed the proposal, still wants to go forward with its Hydrogen Production and Dispensing Project, it will need to prepare an environmental impact report and follow requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.
The lawsuit was brought against the port by Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law firm, on behalf of the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity…