A federal judge issued an injunction Friday that further delays the transfer of Oak Flat, an Indigenous religious site in Arizona, to a multi-national company that would make it one of the largest ...

FILE - Members of Apache and others who want to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona gather outside the U.S. District Court, May 7, 2025, in Phoenix.

Resolution Copper plans to pump up to 600,000 acre-feet of groundwater — nearly 200 billion gallons — to process ore and transport nearly 1.4 billion tons of toxic mine waste to a site called ...

Apache Stronghold asked a federal judge to stop the Trump administration from moving ahead with plans to transfer sacred lands to Resolution Copper. The administration said in April it would push ...

Apache tribal members are already feeling harm as the Trump administration moves to fast-track a deal to turn their sacred land of Oak Flat, Arizona, into a copper mine.

Indeed, since at least 2009, Resolution Copper has pumped 600 to 700 gallons of groundwater per minute out of the mine, resulting in the vanishing of billions of gallons already.