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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. O'Rourke holds that the trial court must revisit an Environmental Quality Act challenge to the approval of a supplemental environmental impact report for a shipping container terminal at the Port of Los Angeles. The trial court found that emissions mitigation measures in the report were unenforceable, in violation of the Act. But it erred in limiting the range of remedies it could impose on the port to ordering a revised report, while allowing continued operations at the terminal. The port abused its discretion in making a greenhouse gas offset fund a term of the terminal's lease instead of enforcing it as a mitigation measure. And it failed to support its decision to reduce the compliance rate with a requirement for vessels to slow down near the port. Reversed.