September 29, 2026

Environmentalists Sue Federal Agencies Over Nation’s First Fast-Tracked Critical Minerals Mine

🌍✨ Environmentalists Sue Federal Agencies Over Nation’s First Fast-Tracked Critical Minerals Mine

🌟 Why this is awesome: In the foothills of southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, atop so-called critical minerals such as zinc, is South32’s Hermosa project.

The first mine added to a federal program designed to speed up permitting, it “set the standard for what the modern federal permitting process should look like” with “clear timelines, real transparency, and comprehensive interagency coordination, ” […] 💚🌱

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Source: Inside Climate News

Topics: climate environment environmentalists sue federal agencies over nations first fa · Summary: In the foothills of southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, atop so-called critical minerals such as zinc, is South32’s Hermosa project. The first mine add