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Trump Clears Way for Alaska’s Pebble Mine, Which Would Cause Major Environmental Devastation

HeadlineJul 27, 2020

The Trump administration on Friday cleared a major hurdle for the proposed Pebble Mine, a multibillion-dollar copper and gold mine in Alaska that would be among the world’s largest. Environmentalists and local Indigenous communities have fought against the proposed mine for nearly two decades, saying it would poison their communities and devastate Bristol Bay’s salmon fishery. 

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