StarkyRubbleAt a time when the World's wild salmon runs are dying due to warming, crappy logging practices, open net fish farms, etc, #BigMining wanted to put a giant new mine called #PebbleMine in SE Alaska near Bristol Bay and the world's largest wild salmon run
There was near universal opposition but the usual #GOP crowd fought for it saying 'jobs' & 'economy' like they'd keep us in fish
So this is #EPA announcement is good news!
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-epa-regional-administrator-pebble-stage.html
EPA regional administrator recommends killing Pebble mine, setting stage for final veto
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday moved to deal a major blow to the proposed Pebble mine, a large copper and gold prospect in a salmon-rich Southwest Alaska region that has been hotly contested for more than a decade.