After the EPA rejected a gold and copper mine proposal in 2021, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case that would have revived the project.
Concerned about the possible effects on a significant salmon fishery in Alaska, the Biden administration made the unprecedented decision to halt construction of the Pebble Mine in 2021. Alaska had petitioned the court to reverse the EPA’s decision.
Alaska claimed the EPA broke a land exchange agreement in which the state ceded its rights to what is now Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, The Hill reported.
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