Editorial: An EPA decision reviving Alaska's Pebble Mine endangers Bristol Bay and a vibrant fishing economy
by Los Angeles Times
Aug 13, 2019
3 minutes
Just five years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency determined that a proposal to dig a massive open-pit copper and gold mine near southwest Alaska's Bristol Bay - one of the world's most important salmon fisheries - threatened an environmental disaster. So it issued rules to severely curtail the potential project.
What a difference an election makes.
Shortly after President Trump's appointee, Scott Pruitt, took over the EPA in 2017, he met with
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