Post by pavel on Apr 21, 2016 2:55:48 GMT -6
FARMINGTON – A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior's 25-year extension of operations at the Four Corners Power Plant and the Navajo Mine in Fruitland.
Attorneys for the Western Environmental Law Center, the Center for Biological Diversity and others filed the complaint representing the San Juan Citizens Alliance, Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment and other environmental groups in Arizona's federal district court on Wednesday. The joint legal action came after a notice of intent to file was originally made by the coalition in December.
The DOI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, DOI Secretary Sally Jewell, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement were named as defendants.
The groups' 58-page complaint challenges the federal agencies' "arbitrary, capricious and unlawful failure" to more thoroughly analyze the potential impacts to the environment, public health and endangered species from operations at the Four Corners Power Plant and the Navajo Mine.
Read more: www.daily-times.com/story/money/industries/oil-gas/2016/04/20/feds-sued-over-fruitland-power-plant-mine/83288808/
Attorneys for the Western Environmental Law Center, the Center for Biological Diversity and others filed the complaint representing the San Juan Citizens Alliance, Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment and other environmental groups in Arizona's federal district court on Wednesday. The joint legal action came after a notice of intent to file was originally made by the coalition in December.
The DOI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, DOI Secretary Sally Jewell, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement were named as defendants.
The groups' 58-page complaint challenges the federal agencies' "arbitrary, capricious and unlawful failure" to more thoroughly analyze the potential impacts to the environment, public health and endangered species from operations at the Four Corners Power Plant and the Navajo Mine.
Read more: www.daily-times.com/story/money/industries/oil-gas/2016/04/20/feds-sued-over-fruitland-power-plant-mine/83288808/