Can a Tribe’s Religious Freedom Claims Halt a Major Copper Mine?

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to stop the construction of a copper mine in Arizona on land sacred to the San Carlos Apache Tribe as well as other Indigenous nations. Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat, […]