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A Native American group on Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to block Rio Tinto and BHP from gaining access to Arizona land needed to build one of the world’s largest copper mines, a last-ditch legal move in a long-running case pitting religious rights against the energy transition.
At least four justices would need to agree to hear the appeal, in which Apache Stronghold and their attorneys at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty contend the government would be violating the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion if the mine is developed. In 2014, Congress and then-President Barack Obama approved a complex deal to give Rio Tinto the land. President Joe Biden froze the land swap after assuming office in 2021.
Rio Tinto said the case “does not present any question worthy of Supreme Court review” given the 9th Circuit’s ruling, which it supported.
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