EPA takes step toward ending ‘pre-emptive veto’ of Pebble Mine

Activists hold anti-Pebble Mine posters at an EPA meeting in 2012. Photo by Daysha Eaton.The EPA has announced its intention to reverse course on an action that would have thwarted the proposed Pebble mine in the Bristol Bay watershed.
The Obama administration’s Clean Water Act restrictions, if finalized, would have made it hard for Pebble Limited Partnership to develop a major gold and copper deposit in Southwest Alaska. President Trump’s EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, has sa