Pacificorp

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION, Case No. 23-cv-05179-JST

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

PACIFICORP, et al., Re: ECF No. 32 Defendants.

12 Before the Court is Defendants PacifiCorp and Pacific Power’s (together “PacifiCorp”) motion to dismiss Plaintiff Ecological Rights Foundation’s (“EcoRights”) first amended complaint (“FAC”). ECF No. 32. The Court will deny the motion. I. BACKGROUND A. Factual Background1 EcoRights is a “non-profit public benefit corporation focused on protecting surface waters and groundwater from pollution and degradation.” ECF No. 23 ¶ 16. PacifiCorp “is an electrical utility corporation that supplies electricity to parts of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington.” Id. ¶ 18. “To maintain its electrical distribution system, PacifiCorp operates and maintains numerous corporation yards and service centers throughout its territory” which includes a facility at…