Two environmental groups are suing over the constitutionality of the Utah Inland Port Authority, arguing it violates the state's separation of powers principle.
The Center for Biological Diversity and Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment are aiming to overturn all of the authority board’s decisions since 2022.
“This lawsuit aims to reverse the Utah Port Authority’s disastrous record of using public money to fast track massive industrial development that’s accelerating the collapse of the Great Salt Lake ecosystem,” said Deeda Seed, a senior campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity, in a statement.
UIPA Executive Director Ben Hart disputed the groups’ assertion that the authority had not been a good steward of wetlands in the Great Salt Lake basin, calling the lawsuit “borderline defamation.”
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