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Newly released emails reveal that lawyers and lobbyists for mining companies, developers and the agriculture industry had a hand behind the scenes in shaping Arizona’s newly adopted law on clean-water rules for rivers and streams.
The emails show the involvement of these influential groups went beyond their public endorsements of the legislation. Their lawyers and lobbyists were given access to offer input while the final legislation was being drafted, and the emails show they suggested specific language, offered “wordsmithing” tweaks and requested significant changes that state officials incorporated into the bill.
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality released more than 400 emails in response to a request by The Arizona Republic under the state’s public records law.
Arizona PBS
May 6, 2021
Chris Luna chants traditional hymns at a protest in Phoenix in February, when members of the group Apache Stronghold rallied on the eve of a hearing on their suit to block a copper mine that they say would destroy sacred lands at Oak Flat. The judge rejected their petition, but the project has been put on hold by the Biden administration. (Photo by Alberto Mariani/Cronkite News)
Opponents of the proposed Resolution Copper mine at Oak Flat have been fighting the project for years, from lobbying in Washington to members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe setting up a camp near the entrance of Oak Flat campground in this photo from 2016. (File photo by Bri Cossavella/Cronkite News)
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