ELR Citation: 49 ELR 20172
No(s). CV 19-20-M-DWM (D. Mont. Oct 10, 2019) (Molloy, J.)

A district court denied summary judgment in a lawsuit concerning potential harms to local trout populations from a proposed copper and silver mine in Montana. Environmental groups and a Native American tribe argued that FWS violated the ESA by using a habitat surrogate to establish the mine's author...