Alaska Public Media D.C. correspondent Liz Ruskin fills us in on Alaska News Nightly, with host Casey Grove.Liz, let’s start with Pebble. We’ve reported that the Environmental Protection Agency used its veto authority over the Pebble mine. What does that even mean? Because I thought the Corps of Engineers already denied Pebble’s wetlands permit.
Yes, the Bureau of Land Management has identified its preferred alternative. And now the Interior secretary will decide whether to go with this slightly scaled down version of the project, scale it back further or even reject it entirely. Interior really made a point of saying today that BLM’s selection of a preferred alternative isn’t the final word.
In fact, as long as we’re talking about not having a final word, opponents of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge haven’t given up. Today 55 mostly Democratic members of Congress introduced a new bill that would reverse the 2017 decision opening coastal plain of the refuge to oil drilling.
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