Native leaders lobby for speedy end to flood lawsuit
Native leaders, including former national grand chief Ovide Mercredi, are in Ottawa this week lobbying for a speedy end to a flood settlement lawsuit that is mired in secrecy and 20 years of delays.
A citizens' group has sued a longwall mining company in southwestern Pennsylvania, claiming it is polluting key waterways--including at least one high-quality fishing stream--that feed the Monongahela River.