Congress to Investigate EPA’s Involvement with Pebble Mine
I hadn’t planned on addressing this issue again until after the election, but the proposed Pebble Mine is again in the news. Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is digging into the weeds on exactly...
View ArticleEPA Keeping Lawmakers in the Dark
Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee. With a fairly bad year in 2012, the EPA is not off to a good start so far in 2013: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House...
View ArticleNew Report Looks at Pebble Mine Permitting Process
EPAAbuse.com A new report written by Dr. Bonner Cohen, a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, takes a detailed look at the regulatory battle being fought over the Pebble...
View ArticleEPA Still Micro-Managing Pebble Mine
Though former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has left the Environmental Protection Agency, not much has changed with regards to the agencies attitude towards natural resource projects. This week,...
View ArticleNew EPA Administrator to Face Tough Questions
Lisa P. Jackson’s likely replacement as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, is soon expected to face some tough questions at her confirmation hearing: President Obama’s...
View ArticleTell the EPA to Stop Killing American Jobs!
We’ve written before about the EPA’s recent assessment of a potential mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and how its set a dangerous precedent that kills job creation while relying on activist anti-mining...
View ArticleNew Report on Positive Benefits from Pebble Mine
Remember the Pebble Mine — the ambitious mining project proposed years ago for a remote area of Alaska? The groups involved in the project are still tied up in the permitting process, thanks to...
View ArticleJobs from the Pebble Mine
Our last post took a look at the state and federal tax revenue that would be created if the proposed Pebble Mine project were to go forward. But the project is more than just tax revenue, as the study...
View ArticleWashington Post Supportive of Pebble Mine Process
Via fishalaskamagazine.com Today The Washington Post has a surprising editorial endorsing the idea that the proposed Pebble Mine ought to be given a fare shake, rather than being outright rejected due...
View ArticlePebble Fight Rages On
On Friday, Greenwire ($ub required) published an article about the ongoing fight over the proposed Pebble Mine: Both sides in the debate surrounding Pebble LP’s proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska...
View Article“Lawmakers probe whether EPA staffer planted seed for watershed assessment”
According to an article in E&E Newswire this week, Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are probing whether a former U.S. EPA staffer’s intervention helped lead to...
View ArticleGina McCarthy Heads to Bristol Bay
Gina McCarthy, the new acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is taking a trip out to Alaska in order to scope out the proposed Pebble Mine site: WASHINGTON — New Environmental Protection...
View ArticleEPA Acting Crazy in Alaska
Fresh off of EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy’s trip to Alaska to take a look at the proposed Pebble Mine site and hold conversations with interested parties, the EPA and Alaska are again in the news...
View ArticleEPA Releases Bristol Bay Assessment
Earlier this week the Environmental Protection Agency released its long awaited assessment of the impacts of mining operations in the Bristol Bay area in Alaska. Unsurprisingly, the EPA concluded that...
View ArticleEPA Considers Using Clean Water Act to Block Pebble Mine
On Friday the Environmental Protection Agency took a “step forward” in potentially forbidding the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska to go forward. The Washington Post has more: The Environmental...
View ArticlePebble Mine Looking Less and Less Likely
Earlier this week one of the key investors in the potential Pebble Mine project decided to bow out: The global mining firm Rio Tinto announced Monday that it will divest its 19 percent stake in the...
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