December 28, 2010 – Rosemont Mine EIS Process Violating Federal Law. December 28, 2010 – Seven Imperiled Brazilian Species Gain Endangered Status. ... February 1, 2010 – Proposed PolyMet Mine Would Violate Environmental Laws and Cannot Proceed. February 1, 2010 – Lawsuit Initiated to Curb Soot Pollution.

A federal appeals court rejected Rosemont Copper's bid for a new hearing on its mining project southeast of Tucson, keeping a ruling in place which effectively halted the long-controversial mine ...

Re: Rosemont Mine Environmental Impact Statement - Cooperator Comment Summary Attached please find a summary of comments prepared by other Cooperating Agencies regarding the Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Rosemont Mine. CHH/mjk Attachments c: Linda Mayro, Director, Sustainability and Conservation

The proposed Rosemont copper mine site, pictured, in Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains, would include a pit a mile wide and 2,900 feet deep—and thousands of acres of waste rock piled several ...

Environmental law professors say the ruling is well-grounded factually and could end a century-old practice by mining companies of skirting or dodging federal law by dumping mining wastes on ...

Judge Soto's ruling vacated the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) that the Forest Service had granted the Rosemont Mine in 2013. [6] As a result, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") suspended the Clean Water Act permit granted to the Rosemont Mine. The Corps' permit was based on the FEIS approved by the Forest Service.

TUCSON, Ariz.— Conservation groups filed a formal notice today of their intent to sue an international mining company to protect critical desert streams and washes in southern Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains. Today's notice says Toronto-based Minerals is violating the Clean Water Act by dumping dirt and rocks into a wash at the company's proposed …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: PDF version can be downloaded here. Federal Appeals Court Upholds Decision to Halt Rosemont Mine in Arizona. TUCSON, Ariz.— A federal appeals court today upheld the invalidation of the U.S. Forest Service's approval of a controversial open-pit copper mine in southern Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains.

In a nutshell, the Court ruled that the Final Environmental Impact Statement ("FEIS") and Record of Decision ("ROD") issued by the U.S. Forest Service ("USFS") …

The Rosemont Mine would have generated 1.9 billion tons of toxic mining waste that would have buried more than 3,500 acres of National Forest System lands containing dozens of prehistoric tribal sites. ... The Ninth Circuit ruling agreed with the District Court's finding that Rosemont could not use federal public lands, including lands with ...

Nearly seven years later, in the final Rosemont environmental impact statement, the service said that putting waste rock and tailings on forest land is considered to be connected to mining under federal rules. "As such, they are authorized activities regardless of whether they are on or off mining claims."

Enviros argue Rosemont's push to mine to west side of Santa Ritas violates federal law Center for Biological Diversity, others file prelude to federal lawsuit over violations to Clean Water Act

preparing the environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Rosemont Mine. Specifically, the inclusion of Rosemont representatives on a regular and systematic basis in …

DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT . Dear Interested Party: The Rosemont Copper Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) reports the Forest Service's analysis findings for operation of a proposed open-pit copper mine south of Tucson, Arizona. As proposed by the Rosemont Copper Company, the operation would directly impact

— The Coronado National Forest is violating federal law as it develops the environmental impact statement for the Rosemont mine by allowing representatives of …

In a split decision, a three-member federal appeals court panel has upheld a 2019 ruling that stopped the proposed Rosemont Mine project days before mine construction was to begin.

A federal judge blocked construction of a giant copper mine in Arizona's Coronado National Forest, overturning a decision by the federal government and handing a major victory to environmental ...

The mile-wide, half-mile deep Rosemont open-pit copper mine is likely to have negative impacts on Cienega Creek by lowering the groundwater table and reducing the surface flows on important tributaries, including Empire Gulch and Davidson Canyon, BLM states in its comments to the Coronado National Forest's preliminary Final Environmental ...

Siding with the environmental groups, the decision found the Forest Service's Environmental Impact Statement to be fatally flawed because the Service failed to consider …

— In a lawsuit filed in Tucson today against the U.S. Forest Service, a business and conservation coalition asked a federal district court to halt the agency's violation of the law in its preparation …

The nephew of a plaintiff in a Toronto civil suit against Minerals Inc. was beaten to death last month raising questions whether the murder was an attempt to intimidate Guatemalan Mayan activists in their ongoing civil and criminal cases against the mining company, activists say.. Héctor Manuel Choc Cuz, 19, died on March 31 after he was taken to the …

Intent to prepare this document was published in the Federal Register on March 13, 2008. ... of Intent that was published in the Federal Register on April 29, 2008. The Rosemont Copper Project proposes to mine copper and associated ... 1986 "Coronado National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan." A final environmental impact statement ...

The Tohono O'odham Nation, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and the Hopi Tribe sued the U.S. Forest Service in U.S. District Court on April 13 challenging the agency's approval of a plan by Toronto-based …

In the Rosemont case, Rosemont Copper Company had a valid mining claim (under the Act) for the land where it proposed to locate the mine. However, in its mining plan …

The U.S. Forest Service completed the Rosemont Copper final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that states that while the proposed mine would cause negative impacts, Augusta Resources is in line with nearly all environmental laws. The final Rosemont Mine EIS was posted on the Forest Service's website () on Nov. 29 ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— A federal judge today overturned the U.S. Forest Service's approval of a controversial open-pit copper mine in southern Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains, citing the agency's "inherently flawed analysis from the inception of the proposed Rosemont Mine." The ruling blocks Toronto-based Minerals from beginning construction on the …

With these changes, new laws have been enacted to address certain subsets of mining and extraction activities on federal lands, including coal, oil, and natural gas extraction; …

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a 2019 ruling by a federal judge in Tucson, who faulted the Forest Service for assuming that Rosemont Copper Company had valid claims to the mineral ...

the U.S. Forest Service's approval of a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and Record of Decision (ROD) for the proposed Rosemont Mine on the east side of the Santa Rita …

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The Forest's MOU with Rosemont was recently amended to require completion of the draft EIS by November 2009, before much of the information needed to inform alternatives analysis would be available, and without resolution of the validity issue.