After latest Pebble Mine defeat, Bristol Bay leaders call for lasting protections
The call asks the EPA to reinstate a veto of the project and for Congress to establish lasting protections for the Bristol Bay fishery.
The call asks the EPA to reinstate a veto of the project and for Congress to establish lasting protections for the Bristol Bay fishery.
The decision to lift the 2014 protections on Bristol Bay amounted to an unreviewable enforcement decision, the court ruled.
The groups argued that politics are driving the process, not sound science.
80 percent of Bristol Bay region residents say they fear Pebble Mine would harm fishing.