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A federal court in Portland, Oregon has found the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service violated environmental laws by failing to consider alternative pest management methods when spraying for crickets and grasshoppers.

Ohkay Owingeh Governor Larry Phillips said that after six decades of litigation, the settlement will secure water for the Pueblo鈥檚 current and future needs.

The Bureau of Land Management has announced it鈥檚 canceling its controversial plan to spray the Rio Chama watershed with 670 gallons of a toxic insecticide 鈥撯�� for now.

Pressure from northern New Mexico residents and conservationists has forced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to delay its plans to spray 25,000 acres of the Rio Chama watershed with toxic pesticides known as 鈥渃arbaryl.鈥� The spray is now set for July 7th, but opponents are now pushing to cancel the plan indefinitely.

Federal officials are set to use an insecticide that鈥檚 toxic to fish and insects over 25,000 acres of land in the Rio Chama watershed to kill native grasshoppers.