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DESCRIPTION:Fate of Human Health Impacts To Be Decided in Legal Battle at 9th Circuit 
 Court.\n \nOutpouring of Support from CA Indigenous Communities, Concerned 
 Parents, & Environmentalists To Demand Environmental Justice!\n\n\nWho: 
 Save the Peaks Coalition and Plaintiffs.\n \nWhat: Press conference to 
 follow court hearing at 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Intertribal Sunrise 
 Ceremony & march to courthouse.\n \nWhen: Monday, January 9, 2012\n10:15 
 A.M.  Press conference with the lawyer and litigants will be held directly 
 after the hearing at the courthouse steps –\n95 Seventh Street San 
 Francisco, CA photo opportunity*\n9:30 A.M. Court Hearing\n9:00 A.M. Prayer 
 Vigil photo opportunity*\n8:30 A.M. March to 9th Circuit Court\nfrom Yerba 
 Buena Park to the James R. Browning US Courthouse - 9th Circuit; 95 Seventh 
 Street; San Francisco, CA. photo opportunity*\n7:00 A.M. Sunrise Gathering 
 and Ceremony\nat Yerba Buena Park at 4th and Howard in SF. photo 
 opportunity*\n \nWhy:  The San Francisco Peaks, a holy mountain near 
 Flagstaff AZ, faces imminent danger of being used as a toxic recreation 
 area exposing citizens to hazardous contaminants. The Save the Peaks 
 Coalition vs. US Forest Service are in a legal battle to protect children 
 from hazardous endocrine disruptors and pathogens. The San Francisco Peaks 
 are a site Holy to 13 Southwestern Native Nations and they provide a 
 habitat for threatened plants and animals.\n \nThe case argues that under 
 the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, 
 the Forest Service failed to adequately consider the impacts associated 
 with ingestion of snow made from reclaimed sewer water in its federally 
 mandated environmental review process.\n \n“It is deplorable that the 
 United States Forest Service would allow known endocrine disruptors to come 
 into contact with our our children,” said Berta Benally, a grandmother 
 traveling to California to witness the hearing. "At one point DDT, BPA and 
 asbestos were all considered safe. Years later, after many people suffered, 
 we now sadly know that they created a health hazard.”\n \nBackground: In 
 2005 ,the Snowbowl Ski Resort and Coconino Forest Service’s expansion 
 plan was approved for reclaimed sewage water from Flagstaff's Rio de Flag 
 Sewage Plant for the use of snowmaking at the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort. 
 Since May 2011, owners of Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort laid seven miles of 
 wastewater pipeline and clear-cut over 50 acres of rare alpine forest, 
 while the issue is still being contested in court.\n \nFor more information 
 please call the Save the Peaks Coalition at 928-380-8014 or write to 
 savethepeakscaravan@yahoo.com\n \nNote to editors: Photos available upon 
 request.\n###Indigenous Caravan Travels to San Francisco from Arizona to 
 Stop Snow Made with Reclaimed Sewage Effluent.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/06/18704238.php
SUMMARY:Indigenous Caravan Travels to San Francisco from AZ to Stop Snow Made with Reclaimed Sewer Water
LOCATION:Details Below!
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/06/18704238.php
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