VANCOUVER – Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Alaska-based Pebble Limited Partnership, and the US Environmental Protection Agency have reached a settlement agreement with respect to the parties’ longstanding legal dispute over the federal agency’s pre-emptive regulatory action under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act. Under the terms of the settlement […]
A Unified Command, consisting of responders from Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC), U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), the North Slope Borough, and BP Exploration Alaska (BPXA) has been established to respond to the BP Flow Station 1 Drill Site 2 Well 3 natural gas and crude oil discharge near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. […]
Seattle — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has been recommended to receive approximately $2.5 million in Clean Air Act Targeted Airshed grant funds to help improve air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska. Grant awards will be made upon successful completion of the award application process. Targeted Airshed […]
U.S. President Donald Trump’s new environmental chief said Thursday that carbon dioxide emissions are not a chief contributor to global warming. “I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt said on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box.’ “But we don’t know that […]