Energy and Environment

Emails missing from EPA worker accused of collusion against mine

By Kyle Feldscher
Published January 13, 2016 5:08pm ET
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Emails missing from EPA worker accused of collusion against mine
Phil North, an ecologist with the EPA based in Alaska, is accused by House Republicans of illegally colluding with local tribes to block the Pebble Mine. (AP Photo) | AL Grillo

More than two years of emails from an Environmental Protection Agency worker accused of working illegally to block a mine in Alaska are mysteriously missing.

The EPA’s inspector general released Wednesday its report on the agency’s Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment, which has caused construction on a potentially lucrative mine in the area to be delayed for years, if not killed.

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