How Hudbay’s Santa Rita mining will impact Southern Arizona’s waterways - AZ Luminaria
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Austin Nunez, Chairman of the San Xavier district of the Tohono O’odham Nation, walks through the desert grass, nimbly weaving between ocotillo and barrel cactus, climbing up a pathless foothill of the Santa Rita Mountains just south of Tucson.  Wearing black Lowa hiking shoes, blue jeans, a light long-sleeve button down shirt, with a black bag over one shoulder and a Tohono O’odham baseball hat on his head, he takes a moment, leans down, and admires a rainbow hedgehog cactus.

April 25, Senator Cortez-Masto of Nevada introduced a horrifying Senate bill, co-sponsored by Arizona Senator Sinema, that would essentially overrule the 9th Circuit decision and allow Hudbay to dump millions of tons of toxic tailings on National Forest lands. This would effectively greenlight both Rosemont-Copper World projects on the east and west sides of the Santa Ritas.