Biden Moves to Bar Mining Waste in Alaska, Blocking Gold Mine
- Pebble Mine aims to extract gold and copper from Bristol Bay
- EPA questions potential impacts on area’s salmon fishery
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The Biden administration proposed a ban on waste disposal that would thwart a long-planned gold and copper mine in Alaska, citing the potential harm to the area’s thriving sockeye salmon industry.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a formal recommendation Thursday to bar the disposal of mining waste in Bristol Bay, which hosts the world’s largest harvest of the fish. If finalized, that would effectively block efforts by Pebble Limited Partnership to extract gold, copper and molybdenum from southwestern Alaska.