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The U.S. District Court in Alaska orders the mine’s permitting agencies to take a more thorough look at the impacts of a tailings spill by revising the project’s environmental study

The U.S. District Court in Alaska issued a court order requiring Donlin Mine’s federal permitting agencies to take more thorough look at the impacts of a tailings spill by supplementing the project’s environmental study,

Alaska Native tribal leaders explain how a massive gold mine proposed in their region poses grave risks to villages, food security and continued tribal traditions

Tribal plaintiffs are asking the court to vacate federal authorizations for the mine while federal agencies redo the flawed and illegal environmental study

Hannah Payne Foster, Attorney, Alaska Office, Earthjustice: “In this kind of major extractive project, the barriers to entry to the legal process is high even for engaged, smart advocates. Our clients care so much about their communities, but with thousands of pages to review it is really hard to track what is happening, access resources,…

Plaintiffs argue key state permits authorizing the world’s largest gold mine are illegal

The massive Donlin Gold Mine, if built, would pose grave risks to Kuskokwim River communities.

The federal court ruling in Alaska declares that a key federal permit authorizing the construction and operation of the world’s largest pure gold mine violates environmental and subsistence protection laws

Order granted in part: the FEIS violates NEPA and ANILCA by failing to consider a larger tailings spill; claims that the FEIS’s treatment of the State HIA violated NEPA and that the Section 404 permit violated the CWA is denied.

Olivia Glasscock, Attorney, Alaska Office, Earthjustice: “Unless you look at the whole project, you’re not actually going to understand the impacts on the public interest.”

Press release by the Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition: Alaska’s delegation sides with industry over Tribal requests, salmon in filing an amicus brief in support of the mine

Orutsararmiut Native Council (ONC) and the Native Village of Eek today filed an appeal in the Alaska Supreme Court to review a lower court decision upholding 12 state water rights permits for the Donlin Gold Mine project.

State of Alaska agencies failed to fully consider harmful impacts of the massive gold mine when issuing water permits and a water quality certificate

The Donlin Gold Mine could soon be built along the Kuskokwim River in Southwest Alaska, threatening a vital ecosystem and Native ways of life.

The massive proposed open-pit gold mine and its toxic chemicals threaten salmon, human health, and the Tribes’ traditional ways of life

Southwest Alaska Tribes sue in federal court to halt the Donlin Gold Mine

Alaska Native Tribes who live downstream from the proposed Donlin mine site are facing off against the existential threat the gold mine poses.

Tom Waldo, Attorney, Alaska Office, Earthjustice: “The mine, as proposed, would not comply with water quality standards for protection of salmon habitat, for temperature, and for mercury.”