State prosecutors will take the lead in a lawsuit seeking to compel the city of Moreno Valley to address a bevy of environmental issues that allegedly undermine safeguards against pollution, it was announced Thursday, June 30.California Attorney General Rob Bonta directed Department of Justice attorneys to intervene in a civil action originally filed last summer by the Sierra Club, which is challenging the city’s 2040 General Plan because of broad allowances for large-scale commercial developments that threaten to reduce air quality in an area of Riverside County that already struggles with pollution.“Communities in Moreno Valley experience some of the highest levels of air pollution in the state,” Bonta said. “We’re intervening so that those communities do not continue
