Indigenous Activists Win Two Legal Battles To Protect Their Land [colorlines.com]
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, SCOTUS effectively declared that the ban, in place since...