Environmentalists are poised to return to court in an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a Nevada lithium mine
FILE - An"Access Restricted" sign is displayed at the Lithium Nevada Corp. mine site at Thacker Pass on April 24, 2023, near Orovada, Nev. Environmentalists in an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over the lithium mine being built in Nevada are poised to return to court with a new approach accusing federal wildlife officials of dragging their feet on a year-old petition seeking endangered species protection for a tiny snail that lives nearby.
Past lawsuits filed by conservationists and tribes have taken aim — largely unsuccessfully — at the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, which they accused of cutting regulatory corners to expedite approval of the mine itself in 2021. In the formal 90-day notice of intent to sue sent to Interior Secretary Deborah Haaland last month, they say her agency's failure to make a 12-month finding on the listing petition filed in September 2022 is a violation of the Endangered Species Act.
Interior Department spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said in an email Thursday the department had no comment on the group's intent to sue. Conservationists and tribal lawyers claimed a partial victory last year when U.S. District Judge Miranda Du concluded the bureau failed to fully comply with new interpretations of the 1872 Mining Law. But she stopped short of blocking the project, allowing construction to begin as the bureau shored up plans for disposal of waste rock.The tiny snail’s shell is less than 2 millimeters tall. By comparison, a U.S. nickel coin is 1.95 millimeters thick.
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