Bristol Bay region in Alaska is key state region for wild salmon, but also holds sizable copper and gold deposits. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has blocked development of Pebble Mine, a ...

In a new strategy to challenge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rejection of the giant Pebble Mine project in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the state has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene ...

House Republicans are calling for an investigation into whether the Environmental Protection Agency planned to kill a controversial Alaska copper-and-gold mine from its inception, according to ...

The controversy over a typically celebratory honor underscores the intense polarization over resource development in Alaska ...

WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday issued an order that will help protect one of the world’s most productive wild salmon ecosystems by preventing development of the controversial ...

What would be one of the largest copper and gold mines in the world might never break ground. The EPA is expected to issue its final decision at the end of the month on the Pebble Mine in southwest ...

Environmental activists, tribal communities, and fishermen are celebrating a massive conservation decision: the EPA's rejection Monday of the Pebble Mine. The proposed copper and gold mine on Bristol ...

The Biden administration has blocked a controversial proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska in order to protect the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an unusually strong step Tuesday and blocked a proposed mine heralded by backers as the most significant undeveloped copper and gold resource in the world ...

The Biden administration wielded a little-used tool on Tuesday to stop the controversial proposed Pebble mine in Southwest Alaska, issuing a final determination under the Clean Water Act to prevent ...

The EPA is expected to make a final decision this month on the controversial Pebble Mine in southwest Alaska. Many residents fear the proposed giant copper and gold mine would harm wild salmon runs.