From the end of the article there is this excerpt:The Center for...

From the end of the article there is this excerpt:

The Center for Biological Diversity and Ioneer, which had intervened as an interested party, have since worked out an agreement whereby the center has dropped the lawsuit and Ioneer has agreed to certain terms and conditions to safeguard the buckwheat.
Ioneer must now notify the center whether it intends to pursue any additional exploration activity or when it begins the process of seeking the necessary approvals for building the mine. The company is also required to use hand tools to do a small portion of its reclamation work, such as reseeding grasses along access roads.

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I find it interesting that important information such as this is left to the very end of a long article, often only seen by the few that have continued to finish the piece.
A simple mention higher up in the article mentioning that Ioneer and the Center for Biological Diversity have reached an agreement higher up in the article could have changed the context.