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… “Too often regulation raises costs, punishing people who can least afford it. “In December, the president of Toyota pointed out that regulating the internal combustion engine out of existence could make automobiles ‘[a] flower on a high summit.’ “In other words, something out of the reach of ordinary people. “He’s right. “In the United States, the typical Tesla owner has no children and makes an annual income of more than $140,000. “Limiting consumer options to just expens...

Lawsuits seek to stop mining, construction on sacred sites By (0) Arizonas Gaan Canyon in Oak Flat, also known as Chichil Bildagoteel, is 65 miles east of Phoenix. Apache tribal members and their allies are fighting to stop the construction of a copper mine there. Photo by Russ McSpadden/Center for Biological Diversity April 6 (UPI) -- Two disputes over sites that are sacred to Native Americans are on the docket at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. A group of Apache tribal members and their a...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT House Dem Tries Again To Undo Ariz. Copper Mine Land Swap Law360 (March 16, 2021, 9:47 PM EDT) -- The chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources has reintroduced legislation that would cancel a land exchange for the Resolution Copper mine project in Arizona, amid litigation from tribal and environmental groups seeking to halt the project. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., said in a statement Monday that he had reintroduced the Save Oak Flat Act, which would re...

Waya Brown, who is Apache and Pomo, dances in a circle at Oak Flat campground on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, near Superior, Arizona. (RNS/Alejandra Molina) Waya Brown, barefoot and clad in a flicker-feather headdress and red-tailed hawk cape, waved a handful of feathers toward the ground.  Brown, who is Apache and Pomo, twirled in a circle as he blew a double cane whistle. His father rattled a bamboo stick and sang in the Pomo language, while his aunt pounded on a deerskin drum....

SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva has introduced a bill to keep the U.S....

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. President Biden has added yet another tally-mark to his ever-increasing list of executive orders. This time, it was an order declaring his purported recognition of the need to secure our nation’s domestic supply chains. On its face, the motivation behind such a declaration is one we would agree with. Our nation’s domestic sourcing of critical minerals – or significant lack thereof – truly is a substantial we...

Apache Stronghold forces U.S. government retreat APACHE STRONGHOLD MAKES U.S. GOVERNMENT RETREAT CAUSING 9th CIRCUIT DENIAL OF EMERGENCY INJUNCTION CASE STILL PROCEEDS ON EXPEDITED BASIS Apache Stronghold activists opposing copper mine gather outside the Arizona Chamber of Commerce in Feb. 2020. OAK FLAT, AZ — This afternoon [March 5] the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied Apache Stronghold’s appeal of U.S. District Court Judge Steven Logan’s Feb. 12, 2021, ruling. The Appellate Court r...

The Biden administration has put the brakes on a controversial land exchange that would have given a sacred Native American site to a multinational mining company by 11 March. Parts of the handover had been rushed to completion in the waning days of the Trump administration, in an effort to give Resolution Copper control over Arizona’s Oak Flat region before or soon after Trump left office. Oak Flat sits atop one of the largest untapped copper deposits in the world, estimated to be worth mo...

Ripples from Juukan: WA traditional owners back Arizona tribe fighting Rio Tinto We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement The Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people have thrown their support behind a North American first nations tribe locked in a battle with a Rio Tinto-owned copper miner. San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona have fought Resolution Copper’s plans to build one of the world’s biggest copp...

This story was originally published by the Guardian  as part of their two-year series, This Land is Your Land, examining the threats facing America’s public lands, with support from the Society of Environmental Journalists, and is republished by permission. The Biden administration has put the brakes on a controversial land exchange that would have given a sacred Native American site to a multinational mining company by March 11. Parts of the handover had been rushed to completion in t...