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May 15, 2019 | Legal Document

Rosemont Copper Mine: Memo in Support of Preliminary Injunction (No. 4:17-cv-00475-TUC-JAS)

Plaintiffs Tohono O’odham Nation, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and the Hopi Tribe move the Court for immediate injunctive relief barring Rosemont Copper Company from commencing the development of a new, mile-wide, open-pit copper mine southwest of Tucson. The project will ultimately disinter ancestral remains, obliterate archaeological and cultural sites, and permanently scar the natural beauty of the Santa Rita Mountains. Given the important and unique resources at risk, an injunction pending the Court’s final decision on the merits of this case is necessary and appropriate.

May 15, 2019 | Legal Document

Rosemont Copper Mine: Motion for Preliminary Injunction (No. 4:17-cv-00475-TUC-JAS)

Pursuant to F.R.C.P. 65, the Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and Hopi Tribe respectfully request a preliminary injunction to prevent the Rosemont Copper Company from undertaking any ground-disturbing activities approved by the Forest Service in its June, 2017 Record of Decision or pursuant to Rosemont’s March 20, 2019 revised Mine Plan of Operations.

May 14, 2019 | Notas de nuestros expertos

La EPA Debe Proteger Nuestras Comunidades de la Exposición Al Cianuro de Hidrógeno

Todas las comunidades tienen derecho a un aire puro, y compartir una cerca con una refinería no menoscaba este derecho.

May 14, 2019 | From the Experts

EPA Must Protect Communities from Hydrogen Cyanide Exposure

All communities have a right to healthy air, and sharing a fenceline with a refinery does not lessen this right.

May 3, 2019 | In the News: Arizona Republic

High-Level Trump Appointee Sought Reversal On Arizona Development Near San Pedro River, Ex-Official Says

Stuart Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “This is an egregious example of the Trump administration considering itself above the law.”

April 16, 2019 | In the News: The Colorado Independent

Colorado’s Vaunted Oil And Gas Rules Are Flawed And Inadequately Enforced

Joel Minor, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “If your estimate of devices is off by almost 50%, your estimate of emission numbers is going to be wrong. The rate that we are gathering information is not keeping pace with the speed of the development.”

April 10, 2019 | Legal Document

Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief: Rosemont Mining Company

The Tohono O’odham Nation; Pascua Yaqui Tribe; and Hopi Tribe are filing a complaint against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in re: the proposed Rosemont Mining Company's plans to excavate a mile-wide, half-mile deep pit to extract copper — a proposal that would spell the permanent devastation of this important center of Native American cultural and religious life, degrade the
Cienega Creek watershed, and destroy an intricate network of drainages containing some of the highest quality streams and wetland ecosystems in Arizona.

April 10, 2019 | Press Release

Tribes Challenge Final Permit For Toxic Open‐Pit Copper Mine On Sacred Lands

Mine in Arizona would desecrate burial sites and historic places, and destroy streams and groundwater resources

April 5, 2019 | Press Release

Communities Affected by Oil Refineries Applaud Measure to Regulate Toxic Hydrogen Cyanide Emissions

Rep. Diana DeGette’s bill would finally set standards, require monitoring, and enforce limits on dangerous pollutant

March 12, 2019 | In the News: Associated Press

Trump’s National Monument Changes Return to Spotlight

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Earthjustice Rocky Mountain office: the lack of an outcome for so many monuments “raises questions if this was really about abuses they saw in monument designations or whether it was really more of a political deal that he had made with the Utah senators?”

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