Alaskans and the people of Bristol Bay deserve to see this critical piece before any agency decisions or actions Groups advocating for the protection of Bristol Bay waterways, salmon and communities condemn the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failure to make public a recently submitted mitigation plan for the proposed Pebble mine. “It’s remarkable that […]
Lawsuit charges BLM with violating NEPA, other laws in plan to hand public land to fossil fuel industry ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Six groups filed a lawsuit Monday, August 24 in U.S. District Court charging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management with breaking the law by advancing a new management plan for Alaska’s National Petroleum […]
A federal District Court decision released late Monday resoundingly shut down the Interior Department’s second attempt at a land exchange with the King Cove Corporation to make way for a road through vital protected wetlands in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. “For the second time, the Court has told the road proponents that invading the […]
ANCHORAGE – The federal district court in Alaska dismissed a consolidated lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s removal of proposed protections for Bristol Bay, Alaska. The EPA’s 2014 proposed protections under the Clean Water Act would have protected Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble mine project, but EPA withdrew its proposed determination in 2019. The […]