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Forest Service Says Groups, Tribes Can t Fight Uranium Mine
Law360 (April 6, 2021, 3:22 PM EDT) Arizona tribes and environmental groups missed the mark and can t lawfully challenge a federal decision to greenlight the reopening of a dormant uranium mine six miles from Grand Canyon National Park, the U.S. government told the Ninth Circuit on Monday.
The U.S. Forest Service told the court that it should uphold a lower court s ruling rejecting an attempt by the Havasupai Tribe, the Grand Canyon Trust and others to kill the Canyon Mine approvals because the challenge focused on the wrong federal decision.
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a conservation package that includes a bill to ban new uranium mining claims on more than a million acres
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