The 2020 U.S. Supreme Court McGirt ruling has led to a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma challenging the Interior Department’s plan to strip the state of its jurisdiction regulating coal mining operations on tribal reservations.
Gov. Kevin Stitt announced the lawsuit this week saying it had been filed last week in Oklahoma City U.S. District Court.
Recently-named Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was named as one of the defendants as was the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement and its acting director Glenda Owens.
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