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DependsJudge finds feds’ environmental analysis of Arizona mine insufficient
What the article says. Courthouse News published “Judge finds feds’ environmental analysis of Arizona mine insufficient.” In the piece, they put it this way: PHOENIX (CN) — The U.S. Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it approved the expansion of a pit mine in eastern Arizona without analyzing the entirety of land likely to be adversely affected by the project, a federal judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Dominic Lanza issued a split ruling in a federal challenge to the agency’s decision to expand the Pinto Valley copper mine, giving the plaintiff, the nonprofit conservation group Sierra Club, two weeks to brief potential remedies. The Pinto Valley Mine uses more than 5 trillion gallons of water per year,…
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