The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
Sens. David Vitter (R-LA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) Jan. 7 re-introduced legislation aimed at prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from pre-emptively or retroactively vetoing a permit under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The re-introduced legislation, "Regulatory Fairness Act of 2015", has been designated S.54. The EPA previously used CWA Section 404 authority to revoke permits issued for the Mingo Logan coal mine project in Manchin's home state of West Virginia. If passed, the Regulatory Fairness Act of 2014 would prevent EPA from pre-emptively vetoing CWA permits needed to develop the Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum deposit in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska.
Over his more than 16 years of covering mining and mineral exploration, Shane has become renowned for his ability to report on the sector in a way that is technically sound enough to inform industry insiders while being easy to understand by a wider audience.
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