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Spring Pygmy Sunfish Halt Mazda Toyota Manufacturing Plant

Work on the $1.6 billion Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA plant in west Huntsville has been temporarily suspended because of environmental concerns.

The spring pygmy sunfish is a tiny fish that rarely grows more than an inch. It lives in the dense aquatic vegetation around springs in the Tennessee River Drainage, near the site of the plant in Limestone County.

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a federal lawsuit in June seeking an injunction asking the court to require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the sunfish habitat. The lawsuit is not against Mazda Toyota Manufacturing.