Oklahoma Federal Court Permanently Enjoins Wind Farm

Here are the materials in United States v. Osage Wind LLC (N.D. Oklahoma.):

Prior posts here — there’s a lot of them (good for the lawyers, eh?).

Heather Tanana on Women Indigenous Leaders in the Colorado River Basin

Heather Tanana has published “Voices of the River: The Rise of Indigenous Women Leaders in the Colorado River Basin” in the Colorado Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review. Here is the abstract:

Climate change is one of the leading challenges facing tribes today. Traditionally, Indigenous women played significant roles in tribal decision-making and governance. However, European contact and colonization shifted gender dynamics, imposing male-dominated leadership. Recently, Native American women are reclaiming leadership positions—formally within tribal government, as well as informally in prominent community roles. These women are poised to lead the way in protecting their communities against climate change impacts, but support is critical to sustaining pathways to leadership. This article discusses the disproportionate impacts of climate change on tribes and highlights the rise of Indigenous female leadership within the Colorado River Basin to confront these challenges.

Tonawanda Seneca Sues Interior over Wastewater Pipeline Approval

Here is the complaint in Tonawanda Seneca Nation v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service (W.D. N.Y.):

1 Complaint

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe PFAS Settlement Documents

Here:

SCOTUS Declines to Review Ninth Circuit’s Rule 19/Tribal Immunity Decision

Here is Monday’s order list.

The petition was Klamath Irrigation District v. Bureau of Reclamation: petition and opposition briefs.

Seventh Circuit Briefs in Bad River v. Enbridge

Here:

Lower court materials here, here, and here.

New Student Scholarship on Ecocide as Prosecutable Genocide

Abbey Koenning-Rutherford has published “Dishonoring the Earth: Ecocide as Prosecutable Genocide Against Indigenous People” in the Georgetown Law Journal. PDF

Here is the abstract:

Global Indigenous people exist as one with the environment, with no western binary between people and nature. Destruction of Indigenous people is reciprocal with environmental destruction. Indigenous people, though only six percent of the global population, protect eighty percent of the world’s biodiversity and occupy exceedingly environmentally vulnerable regions. Because of these reasons, the International Criminal Court (the “ICC”) could be utilized to achieve justice by prosecuting ecocide as genocide, should impacted Indigenous peoples choose to utilize it

Heather Tanana to Speak at UMLS Next Week

Federal and Tribal Briefs in Opposition in Klamath Irrigation District v. Bureau of Reclamation

Here:

This is the Trinity River @ Hoopa

Cert petition and other materials here.

Sixth Circuit Briefs in Nessel v. Enbridge Energy LP

Here: