EPA stops the Pebble Mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay with rarely used power
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The EPA is exercising its “veto authority” under section 404-c of the Clean Water Act to prohibit mining the Pebble deposit. It’s a move some Bristol Bay tribes have pushed the EPA to take for 13 years.
“Many of those who began this battle are no longer with us," said Alannah Hurley, executive director of United Tribes of Bristol Bay. She called the EPA’s decision historic.