"It's vital that we protect life on Earth even as we look to the stars in this modern era of spaceflight," Jared Margolis, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in the same statement. (The agency previously required SpaceX to perform more than 75 "mitigating" actions but did not mandate a more stringent environmental impact statement (opens in new tab).)
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The lawsuit, which you can read here (opens in new tab), calls on the FAA to conduct a full environmental review of SpaceX's Starship activities in South Texas. "But we have been cut off from the land our ancestors lived on for thousands of years due to SpaceX, which is using our ancestral lands as a sacrifice zone for its rockets."
"Boca Chica is central to our creation story," Mancias added. "The Carrizo/Comecrudo people's sacred lands are once again being threatened by imperialist policies that treat our cultural heritage as less valuable than corporate interests," Juan Mancias, tribal chair of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas, Inc., said in the same statement. Such closures are a hardship for the native Carrizo/Comecrudo people, affecting their ability to hold ceremonies in the area, the lawsuit states. For example, Boca Chica Beach is public, but the FAA permit allows SpaceX to close access to it for up to 800 hours per year. SpaceX's work at Starbase also affects people in the area, according to the lawsuit.
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