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EPA vacates Obama-era decision blocking Alaska mining project

By Tim Pearce
Published July 30, 2019 9:59pm ET
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EPA vacates Obama-era decision blocking Alaska mining project
A worker with the Pebble Mine project digs in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamma, Alaska. | (AP Photo/Al Grillo,File)

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed a major Obama-era roadblock from a mining project in Alaska.

EPA Region 10 Administrator Chris Hladick announced Tuesday that the agency would revoke an order vetoing the Pebble Mine project’s waste disposal plan, before it was even submitted.

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