Group says it intends to sue US agencies for failing to assess Georgia plant's environmental impact

A Georgia conservation group Monday filed notice of its intent to sue two U.S. government agencies, saying they failed to properly assess the environmental impacts of the $7.6 billion electric vehicle and battery plant Hyundai is building outside Savannah.

The Ogeechee Riverkeeper accuses the Army Corps of Engineers of issuing a permit to fill or dredge wetlands on the plant site using outdated data that failed to consider the project’s final scale. And it says the agency wrongly assumed the project would have a negligible impact on the region’s groundwater supply.

The environmental group also says the U.S. Treasury Department dispersed millions of dollars in infrastructure grants benefitting the project without performing required environmental reviews.