Notice is hereby given that Tinian Women Association, Guardians of Gani’, Pagan Watch and the Center for Biological Diversity, plaintiffs in the case, hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from the Judgment in a Civil Action entered in this action on the 22nd day of August, 2018 (ECF No. 95), and from the Amended Decision and Order on Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment entered in this action on the 31st day of August, 2018 (ECF No. 98).

Citizen and environmental groups argue that U.S. Navy must consider the full impact of live-fire training on Pågan and Tinian as part of moving thousands of Marines to Guam

U.S. District Judge Ramona Manglona refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging U.S. Navy plans for the Marine Corps to conduct live-fire training in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. In a decision issued in Saipan, Judge Manglona said the lawsuit questioning whether the Navy failed to consider all the impacts associated with the plan to transfer 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam and begin staging massive, live-fire war games on the islands of Pågan and Tinian can proceed.

Judge allows case to move forward to determine whether Navy considered all the impacts associated with live-fire training plans for Northern Mariana Islands

By this Complaint, Plaintiffs seek to compel Defendants to comply with the national Environmental policy Act ("NEPA") in connection with the Navy's decision to station permanently thousands of U.S. Marines on the island of Guam to conduct live fire training for those Marines on the islands of Tinian and Pågan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.

The U.S. Navy failed to consider the intense disruption to communities and the environmental destruction that would result from training 5,000 Marines on Tinian and Pågan

The people of the Mariana Islands will fight to protect our homes and our way of life from military intervention as hard as we must and for as long as we must.

Plans by the U.S. Navy to transfer 5,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam and begin staging massive, live-fire war games on the islands of Tinian and Pågan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands would severely disrupt communities on Tinian and shatter the dreams of families who want to return to live permanently on…

Sixty-Day Notice of Intent to Sue the U.S. Navy and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pursuant to the Endangered Species Act Regarding the Implementation of the Mariana Islands Training and Testing Program.

Concerned citizens’ action prods Navy to assess threats training and testing activities pose to imperiled animals and plants.