Title 10, Title 10 and Civil Procedure — Procedure in Particular Actions

(a) Any city or town may maintain an action in a court of competent jurisdiction against any person to enforce, or to restrain the violation of, any environmental quality standard which is designed to prevent or minimize pollution, impairment, or destruction of the environment. (…

(a) In any action maintained under § 10-20-3, where the subject of the action is conduct governed by an environmental quality standard promulgated or issued by an environmental control agency, whenever the plaintiff shall have made a prima facie showing that the conduct of the de…

The court may appoint a referee, who shall be a disinterested person, to take testimony and make a report to the court in any such action.

The court may grant declaratory relief, temporary and permanent equitable relief, or may impose such conditions upon a party as are necessary or appropriate to protect the air, water, land, or other natural resources located within the state from pollution, impairment, or destruc…

(a) If administrative, licensing, or other similar proceedings are required to determine the legality of the defendants’ conduct, the court shall remand the parties to such proceedings. If administrative, licensing, or other similar proceedings are available to determine the lega…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in § 10-20-9, in any administrative, licensing, or other similar proceedings and in any action for judicial review thereof which is made available by law, the environmental advocate may intervene on such terms as the court may deem just and equita…

(a) Civil actions. As hereinafter provided in this section, any city or town residing within the state or the environmental advocate may maintain a civil action in the superior court for declaratory or equitable relief against the state or any agency or instrumentality thereof wh…