2012 Wrap Up
Rosemont
The comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact statement (DEIS) for the proposed Rosemont mine ended in January of 2012. The Arizona Mining Reform Coalition and its member groups were part of a larger effort that helped generate not only a massive (800 page plus) set of comments opposing the mine, but more than 100,000 comments from the public in opposition (although the Forest Service whittled that number down to 25,000 by discounting most comments that were submitted online). The DEIS was not only panned by the public, but the US EPA weighed in and called the DEIS one of the worse they’d ever seen.