Environmental group sues to stop large mining project on Sevier Lake

Environmental group sues to stop large mining project on Sevier Lake

Playa or salt flats in the Great Basin near the Confusion Range in Millard County, Utah. (Photo by Robert Ford/Getty Images)An environmental group is suing the Bureau of Land Management over the agency’s approval of a mining project in Utah’s West Desert.  It’s the latest development in several years of litigation and back-and-forth over the Sevier Playa Potash Project, which would give Peak Minerals 124,000-acres of mineral rights. The proposal…