This is the Oak Flat campground — a sacred site for thousands of Native Americans and home to what the Rio Tinto mining company claims is one of the largest undeveloped copper-ore deposits in the world, capable of producing 40 billion pounds of copper over the next 40 years. The block-cave method proposed by Resolution Copper, the British-Australian mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP that has rights to the land, would destroy Oak Flat.
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Center for Biological Diversity: SUPERIOR, Ariz. Conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today in response to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality’s decades-long failure to limit pollution in Queen Creek.
for people that should have had wins a long time ago. minors, for example, coal miners, retired miners who would not have their health care, absent this agreement, that was a good development. now we have to get their pensions taken care of. good wins for investments in medical research. so, we have to continue, i think, on a bipartisan path and work together for the basic priorities that i think middle class families across the country expect us to work on in their behalf. do you think that there is a chance or a risk that the senate will change to 51 votes to get away from the 60 filibuster? no, i think i don t think there is support in the senate to change the rules on substantive matters, meaning legislation. and i think that s bipartisan. that s good news. but even without that being a threat, i think we have to figure out more and better ways to have longer-term agreements