In a monumental decision that was announced today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued safeguards for the Bristol Bay watershed under section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act. The federal agency’s ...

Bristol Bay residents overwhelmingly oppose the Pebble Mine with over 80 percent regional opposition, including Bristol Bay Native Corporation, Bristol Bay Native Association (31 tribes), Bristol Bay ...

EPA officials said the veto of the mine is rooted in “sound science” about the need to protect a vulnerable salmon fishery. But the decision only bans the Pebble proposal, not other mining projects in ...

The biggest red salmon run in the world is building at Bristol Bay. Up to 50 million fish could surge into its eight river systems in coming weeks, on par with past seasons. When it’s all done, the ...

(Bloomberg) -- The Biden administration on Wednesday is outlining new pollution restrictions that would thwart a long-stalled plan to mine for gold near Alaska’s Bristol Bay. Under the proposed ...

Mr. Metrokin is president and C.E.O. of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation. ANCHORAGE — Bristol Bay is a place defined by salmon. For those of us who live and work in this region of wetlands, rivers ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) wants the long battle over the Pebble copper and gold mine proposal to end. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) wants the long battle over the Pebble copper and gold mine ...

The company trying to build a huge copper and gold mine in the salmon-rich Bristol Bay will keep fighting for the project despite a decision by the federal government to keep the proposed development ...

LONDON, UK, November 4, 2010 (ENS) – Fifty jewelers, with more than £3.5 billion (US$5.75 billion) in annual sales, say they will not source gold from Anglo American plc’s proposed Pebble Mine, which ...

Growing up in a small village in southwest Alaska, Sarah Thiele had a childhood defined by sockeye salmon. Her father caught the silvery-red fish in the summer by the net-full as a commercial ...

A series of undercover videotapes released yesterday from the non-profit Environmental Investigation Agency reveal damning conversations between EIA investigators and executives of the companies ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing protection for the Bristol Bay watershed that would permanently ban the Pebble Mine. The EPA announced the proposed ban Wednesday morning, using ...