For Star subscribers: Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey contends U.S. environmental laws don't apply to his border project because the land doesn't belong to the U.S. government.
Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services Gov. Doug Ducey contends federal environmental laws don't apply to his project of putting shipping containers along the border because the land doesn't belong to the U.S. government.
People are also reading… But Johnson told Campbell that if Ducey wins his argument, then the property where the containers are going up was never federal land in the first place. And if that's the case, he said, there is no federal jurisdiction — and no federal environmental laws have been violated. Federal officials have long operated under the premise it belongs to the federal government. That's based on a 1907 declaration by President Theodore Roosevelt reserving those lands to keep them"free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and Mexico.''But Ducey ordered the placement of shipping containers to fill gaps in the federally constructed border wall in the Yuma area. The U.S.
Fink pointed out that Ducey is erecting the barrier without complying with things like the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Protection Act and the National Forest Management Act, all of which he said provide"procedural and substantive protections'' for the public and the environment. In essence, he said, Ducey is using the lawsuit and his claim of state control of the border strip to circumvent federal environmental review of his activities.
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