The Pebble copper and gold mine--proposed for the pristine headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska--would produce billions of tons of toxic mine waste which will likely find a way into local waters, poisoning salmon and the grizzlies that depend on them.
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent risk assessment of large-scale mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay demonstrates the significant and unacceptable impacts that Pebble Mine would have on this wilderness paradise.
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