November 01, 2021
A federal court has allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to review a controversial mining project in Alaska's Bristol Bay, known to environmentalists as the "Fort Knox of salmon on earth," and vacated a Trump-era order that prevented the agency from blocking the project under the Clean Water Act.
September 29, 2021
The federal government has pressed an Alaska federal judge to ditch a Trump-era U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision to withdraw its objections to a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska, saying the action should be vacated because the agency made a "serious and fundamental" mistake reaching it.
September 09, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took a big step Thursday toward effectively blocking a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska by asking a federal judge to revoke a Trump-era action that withdrew prior agency objections.
April 20, 2020
Environmental and Native American groups can't challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's withdrawal of proposed restrictions on a major gold and copper mining project near Bristol Bay's headwaters, an Alaska federal judge has ruled in a win for the project developer.
April 15, 2020
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was right to withdraw proposed 2014 restrictions on a major gold and copper mining project near the headwaters of Alaska's Bristol Bay because the proposal would have violated state and federal law, Alaska told a federal court Tuesday.
April 09, 2020
An Alaska federal judge said Thursday that a suit by environmental and Native American groups challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's withdrawal of proposed restrictions on a gold and copper mining project can move forward despite a COVID-19-related stay.
April 07, 2020
Native American and environmental groups have urged an Alaska federal judge to quickly lift a coronavirus-related stay on their suit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to withdraw proposed restrictions on Alaska's massive Pebble Mine project.
March 23, 2020
Native American and environmental groups have no right to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to withdraw proposed restrictions on a massive gold and copper mining project in Alaska, the agency said.
February 03, 2020
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inappropriately withdrew proposed restrictions on a massive gold and copper mining project in Alaska, Native American and green groups told a federal judge on Friday.
December 11, 2019
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday asked an Alaska federal judge to dismiss lawsuits filed by Native American and green groups that say the EPA arbitrarily withdrew proposed restrictions on a massive gold and copper mining project.