Plus: El Nino holding strong

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Tribes, environmental groups ask US court to block $10B SunZia transmission project in Arizona

A federal judge is being asked to issue a stop-work order on a $10 billion transmission line being built through a remote southeastern Arizona valley to carry wind-powered electricity to customers as far away as California.

 

A 32-page lawsuit filed on Jan. 17 in U.S. District Court in Tucson, Arizona, accuses the U.S. Interior Department and Bureau of Land Management of refusing for nearly 15 years to recognize “overwhelming evidence of the cultural significance” of the remote San Pedro Valley to Native American tribes including the Tohono O’odham, Hopi, Zuni, and Western Apache.

 

The suit was filed shortly after Pattern Energy received approval to transmit electricity generated by its SunZia Transmission wind farm in central New Mexico through the San Pedro Valley east of Tucson and north of Interstate 10.

 

The current El Nino phase is maintaining its strength across the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Sea-surface temperatures have not changed much during the past month and are still running between 1 to 3 degrees warmer than average throughout much of the equatorial Pacific.
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