From The Daily Beast:
“For most Americans, the third week of December is about wrapping up Christmas shopping and prepping for a whirlwind of family gatherings. But for the leaders of the Navajo Nation, it’s about something much heavier: suicide prevention.”
Article is HERE.
Law Professor Comments regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Revision of Certain Water Quality Criteria Applicable to the State of Washington, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2015-0174, published at 80 Fed. Reg. 55063 (Sept. 14, 2015):
Water quality standards (WQS) for Washington2 impact the rights, resources, and health and well-being of numerous tribes in the region. In fact, when the waters that support fish are allowed to be contaminated, tribes’ interests are profoundly affected and tribal people disproportionately among the most exposed. This context is significant, because it constrains rulemaking in important ways. Among other things, the adequacy of WQS for Washington must be considered in view of legal protections for tribes’ fishing rights, including treaties and other instruments.
Here is the petition in Crow Allottees v. Dept. of Justice:
Question presented:
Can the water rights owned by individual Crow Indian allottees – which this Court in United States v. Powers, 305 U.S. 527 (1939) recognized as distinct individual rights, separate from water rights possessed by the Crow Tribe – be awarded to the Crow Tribe in negotiations between the United States, the tribe, and the State of Montana?Further, do the Montana Courts have jurisdiction to decide these questions of federal law related to allottees’ rights?
Doc. 30- Second Amended Complaint
Previous Turtle Talk coverage here.
Maine is suing the EPA over agency action concerning the State’s surface water quality standards.
Materials in The Moapa Band of Paiute Indians v. Nevada Power:
No. 114 – Order Granting Joint Motion to Approve Settlement
The settlement includes $4.3 million to the Tribe and requires defendants to shutdown the last Reid Gardner Plant by 2018. Four power stations had been running since the 60s to power the Las Vegas Valley, but were considered the dirtiest in the country and fined heavily by regulators for spewing coal ash dust. The last working plant is next to the Tribe’s reservation.
Here are the briefs in Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians v. Coachella Valley Water District:
2016-02-18 – Dkt 036 – Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors in Support of Appellee
Here is the brief in Hirst v. Whatcom County (Wash.):
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