Conservation and tribal groups were successful in their bid to further delay the transfer of public land for a copper mine in Arizona after the Ninth Circuit issued an emergency administrative injunction.
The appeals court on Monday issued a temporary order blocking the Trump administration from handing Oak Flat—a sacred tribal site—over to Resolution Copper, the subsidiary of multinational mining companies
“We grant a temporary administrative injunction to preserve the status quo” while emergency motions for injunctive relief are pending, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in the short order ...