For Immediate Release, April 27, 2021
Contact:
Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project, (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org
Chris Krupp, WildEarth Guardians, (206) 417-6363, ckrupp@wildearthguardians.org
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Approval of Southeast Idaho Phosphate Mine
Ore to Be Used to Produce Cancer-Linked Glyphosate
BOISE, Idaho Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a decision made by the Trump administration to greenlight the Caldwell Canyon phosphate mine in southeast Idaho.
In 2019 the Bureau of Land Management approved the mine on some 1,559 acres of ecologically important land that’s essential to the imperiled greater sage grouse and other species.
Phosphate from the mine will be used by the German multinational chemical company Bayer AG to manufacture glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicides. Glyphosate has been linked to cancer and harm in hundreds of endangered plants and anima