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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 the waning days of the Trump administration, in an effort to give Resolution Copper control over Ariz...

Arizona PBS March 1, 2021 The fight over the copper mine proposed for Oak Flat in southeastern Arizona has raged for years – and will likely continue after Monday’s decision to pull back Forest Service approval for the project. In this 2015 photo, members of the San Carlos Apache tribe gather at the Capitol to protest the land swap that would let the project proceed. (File photo by Jamie Cochran/Cronkite News) WASHINGTON – The government Monday rescinded its approval for a proposed massive copper mine at Oak Flat, just days before it was to transfer thousands of acres of federal land fo...

Parts of handover had been rushed in waning days of Trump to give Resolution Copper control over Arizona’s Oak Flat region

'Closing a portal to the Creator': fresh setback for attempt to prevent destruction of US holy land by miner Annette McGivney © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ross D Franklin/AP Efforts to prevent a sacred Native American site from being destroyed by a copper mine received a setback yesterday, when a federal judge rejected Apache tribal members’ request to halt the site’s transfer to a a multi-national mining company. While US district judge Steven Logan acknowledged that the mine would “close off a portal to the Creator forever and will completely devastate the...

Phoenix, Arizona, United States – Indigenous and environmental groups in the United States are suing the US Forest Service (USFS) to try to prevent the transfer of more than 9.7 square kilometres (2,400 acres) of land in Arizona to a mining company for potential development. The co-plaintiffs in the case, including the Inter Tribal Association of Arizona and the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club, on January 22 filed a lawsuit against a proposed copper mine about 100km east of Phoenix that they say would harm the local environment. “Without a doubt, the proposed mine presents a huge ...