E&B Natural Resources Management Corporation v. County of Alameda

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 10 E&B NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT CASE NO. 18-cv-05857-YGR

CORPORATION, ET AL.,

11 Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO INTERVENE 12 vs. Re: Dkt. No. 41 13

COUNTY OF ALAMEDA, ET AL.,

14 Defendants. 15 16 Plaintiffs E&B Natural Resources Management Corporation (“E&B”); Laurie Volm; 17 Sharyl G. Bloom and Richard S. Bloom, co-trustees of The Lynn Bloom Trust; James C. Roth; 18 Dolores D. Michaelson; and Michael Karpé initiated this action against defendants County of 19 Alameda and Alameda County Board of Supervisors (the “Board”) (collectively, the “County”) 20 seeking to overturn the Board’s July 24, 2018 decision not to renew two conditional use permits 21 (“CUPs”) which defendants maintain are predicates to E&B’s continued operation of an oil 22 extraction and production facility on two parcels of land in Livermore, California. 23 Proposed defendant-intervenor, Center for Biological Diversity (“Center”), seeks to 24 intervene as a matter of right and permissively under Federal Rule of…