Indigenous group asks US Supreme Court to block Rio Tinto’s Arizona copper project By Reuters

(Reuters) – A Native American group asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to block Rio Tinto (NYSE: ) and BHP from gaining access to Arizona land needed to build a massive mine, the latest legal effort in a long term case. which pits religious and cultural rights against the energy transition.

Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit group made up of the San Carlos Apache Tribe and conservationists, has filed an appeal to overturn a March ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that allows the federal government to exchange acreage with mining companies for theirs. Resolution Copper Project.