PHOENIX — Environmental activists in Arizona have taken a step forward in their efforts to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site, to a private company for copper mining.
“There is an injunction in place right now that the Ninth Circuit imposed until it could hear the appeal,” Mark Fink, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Wednesday. “So now we’re asking them to extend that current injunction to last throughout the entirety of the case.”
The Center is part of the Arizona Mining Reform Coalition, which is one of the plaintiffs in three separate lawsuits seeking to stop the U.S. Forest Service from giving Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a British‑Australian mining company…