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 […]
As the on-air scuffle between Trump an his former Director of the FBI, James Comey, continues to heat up following Comey’s firing this week, Trump implied that he may have secret tapes of his meetings with the FBI head, saying, “James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts […]
WHITE HOUSE — The White House on Thursday continued to defend its handling of the firing of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, amid investigations into connections between the president’s election campaign last year and Russian officials. At the center of the scrutiny is whether the deputy attorney general of the Justice Department, Rod […]
Largely on party lines, Trump’s choice for Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Scott Gottlieb, was confirmed by the Senate on a vote of 57-42 on Tuesday. Gottlieb, a physician with ties to the pharmaceutical industry, previously served as the FDA’s Deputy Commissioner and was also an official with Medicaid and Medicare Services Center under […]