Earthjustice reacts to legal filing seeking to overturn EPA determination vetoing the mine

Alaska seeks to strike down an EPA determination issued in January 2023 to protect the Bristol Bay watershed under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

Carole Holley, Managing Attorney, Alaska Office, Earthjustice: “It’s a highly unusual legal move, and also a highly unpopular one.”

The decision is an important step in preserving Bristol Bay and its residents’ way of life.

EPA decision protects Bristol Bay waters from becoming a dumping ground for mine waste; effectively rebuffing the threat of Pebble Mine

An open-pit mine threatened one of the last places on Earth where wild salmon still thrive. We will protect Bristol Bay, one of our world's surviving great ecosystems.

Earthjustice, representing Earthworks, files a lawsuit charging the U.S. EPA with breaking the law when it withdrew a 2014 Proposed Determination setting out protections for Bristol Bay.

Lawsuit charges EPA with unlawfully withdrawing proposed protections for Bristol Bay, Alaska

Save the quiet for the wilderness. In the public arena, we roar. During the recent comment period on protections for Bristol Bay, Earthjustice supporters spoke out in force against Pebble Mine. Here's what they had to say.

Trump administration enters settlement agreement clearing the way for a new permitting process

Groups hail victory for the public’s right to weigh in on protection of Bristol Bay

Earthjustice attorney Tom Waldo answers some basic questions and lays out the facts about Friday’s big news on the Pebble mine in Alaska.

Today, Pebble Limited Partnership filed suit against the EPA for public process to protect Bristol Bay from controversial mine

The unpopular Alaskan mine project meets obstacles.

Careful examination of impacts to world’s largest salmon “factory” may halt huge copper mine project

The Bristol Bay watershed in Alaska is an area rich with salmon, wildlife and salmon-based Alaska Native cultures and is home to the largest sockeye salmon run in the world. A large-scale gold and copper mine, called the Pebble Mine, has been proposed for the area. Between 24 and 94 miles of streams would be…

Large-scale study describes harmful impacts of proposed Pebble Mine project