The U.S. Forest Service published the final environmental impact statement and draft decision for the copper mine and land swap five days before the end of the Trump administration in January 2021.

The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again A federal judge in Phoenix provides a reprieve for Oak Flat. Matt York / AP Photo ...

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an Apache religious challenge to a copper mine that could turn the tribe's sacred site into a 1,000-foot-deep industrial crater.

Texas officials plan to open part of the Harbor Bridge in Corpus Christi by the end of June. The bridge project, which will replace the older Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge built in the 1950s, will ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Copper is the conductive highway that keeps the world’s electrons flowing. It’s in every EV, every wind turbine, and every data center. It’s also in short supply. We’ve mined the easy stuff.

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.