Indigenous Activists Win Two Legal Battles To Protect Their Land [colorlines.com]

Alicia Doktor 10/4/184:00 AM

Amid increasingly dire news about the earth and the environment, there were two legal victories over the past week in various Indigenous nations’ efforts to halt threats to their lands.

Yesterday (October 1), the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear an appeal filed by the uranium industry. The case was intended to overturn an Obama-era 20-year ban on new uranium mining near the Grand Canyon. By refusing to hear the case, SCOTUSeffectively declared that the ban, in place since 2012, is legal.

Environmentalists supported the ban because uranium mining can potentially contaminate water sources, including the Colorado river and its tributaries that support the Hualapai and Havasupai tribes.Per The Guardian:

[For more on this story by Ayana Byrd, go to https://www.colorlines.com/art...s-protect-their-land]

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