September 07, 2017
Citizen groups and a Native American tribe were unable to show a mining company's data-collection project on U.S. Forest Service land in Arizona was sufficiently connected to a proposed mine to warrant treating them as the same project for the purposes of environmental review, an Arizona federal judge ruled Wednesday.
May 23, 2017
A Rio Tinto PLC and BHP Billiton PLC unit pressed an Arizona federal court Monday to toss lawsuits in which a Native American tribe and environmental and mining groups are challenging the U.S. Forest Service's decision to greenlight a data collection plan related to the company's proposed mining project in the state.