By Shane Lasley
Mining News
In final days, Pruitt calls to end EPA veto
Much like Pebble, threat of use could chill economic growth North of 60 Mining News – July 6, 2018
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A helicopter waits at a drill testing the world-class Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum deposit in Southwest Alaska.
Among his final acts before resigning as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt directed his agency's Office of Water to put together a proposal to update the regulations governing EPA's role in the permitting discharges of dredged or fill materials, including the elimination of the "preemptive veto" under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.
EPA's current interp...
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