Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday challenging its decision to allow dredging sediments to be dumped into the Long Island Sound.

In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, Schneiderman asked the court to block the newly designated dumping site because the EPA's actions were “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law.”

The lawsuit claims that the EPA didn't adequately prove the need for a new dumping ground—the third in the Long Island Sound—and didn't consider using existing sites. The state also claims that the EPA didn't consider the health or environmental impact of the proposed dumping.