Two Pieces on the Pebble Mine

With the comment period extended on the EPA Bristol Bay assessment, several recent articles focus on the Pebble Mine, which as proposed would be North America’s biggest to date. Taryn Kiekow reports via Switchboard on the Pebble Partnership’s backlash to the EPA’s Watershed Assessment. And Claire Thompson of Grist writes about what “may be one of the most important environmental decisions of President Obama’s second term,” whether to allow it to happen.