Trump administration hints at a lifeline for embattled Pebble mine project • Washington State Standard

Trump administration hints at a lifeline for embattled Pebble mine project • Washington State Standard

An aerial view of the tundra not far from the Pebble prospect. (Photo by Bretwood Higman, Erin McKittrick/Ground Truth Trekking via Creative Commons license)The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a rare step under former President Joe Biden to block development of the Pebble mine — Alaska’s largest known copper and gold deposit, which for years has fueled controversy over its potential impacts on one of the world’s largest salmon runs. No…

U.S. government will uphold and defend decisions to block Pebble Mine - Wild Salmon Center

The Trump Administration will defend Bristol Bay, America’s greatest salmon fishery.The U.S. federal government is standing up for America’s greatest salmon fishery and against a foreign mining company. On July 17, the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice announced that it will defend both a 2020 decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reject a key Pebble Mine permit and the Environmental Protection Agency’s subsequent decision t…

Alaska's Pebble Mine could get another hearing under Trump

US government lawyers said federal agencies are reportedly "open to reconsideration" of its earlier decisions to block the massive open pit mine proposed at the headwaters of Alaska's premier sockeye fishery