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SIERRA VISTA — A lawsuit filed by the Maricopa Audobon Society and the Center for Biological Diversity not only demands movement on a determination on how Fort Huachuca’s water use impacts the San Pedro River, it asks a federal court to declare the post has failed to prevent harm to endangered species with habitat on the river. In support of such a determination, the lawsuit asserts that groundwater pumping tied to the presence of Fort Huachuca has caused a reduced flow in the river, when a U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist reported to city and county officials last year that there...

Judge Confirms $600,000 Libel Award and Finds Fault with Environmentalists (Tucson) Judge Richard Fields entered formal judgment on March 2, 2005 against the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental activist corporation, and found that they must pay $600,000 in actual and punitive damages to Arizona rancher Jim Chilton and the Chilton Ranch and Cattle Company. The formal judgment confirmed a Tucson jury’s verdict, delivered on January 21, 2005, finding the Center for Biological Diversity guilty of making “false, unfair, libelous and defamatory statements” against Jim Chilton, a fifth generation Arizona rancher whose pioneering ancestors drove cattle into Arizona in the...

<p>WASHINGTON -- The fight to exempt the military from various environmental laws moves into the House on Tuesday, and groups ranging from environmentalists to state water districts and the National League of Cities are suiting up for battle with the Pentagon.</p>