Cases / Waste management · United States · 2023–2025
Trump's EPA keeps Biden-era veto on Alaska's Pebble mine
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Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
In July 2025 the Trump administration's EPA reaffirmed the Biden-era veto on the proposed Pebble mine in Alaska, Alaska Public Media reported. The decision keeps the mine blocked.
What?
The Trump administration's EPA kept the Biden-era veto on the Pebble mine in Alaska, Alaska Public Media reported. Alaska Public Media
Where?
Alaska, United States Alaska Public Media
When?
Reaffirmed July 2025, per Alaska Public Media Alaska Public Media
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
- Developer of the proposed Pebble mine — Mine remains blocked by the veto Alaska Public Media
Harmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
EPA veto over the proposed mine, reaffirmed by the Trump administration's EPA Alaska Public Media
6 of 6 questions answered from the record
What happened
The record, in order.
Alaska Public Media reported in July 2025 that the Trump administration's EPA reaffirmed the Biden-era veto on the Pebble mine.
The new administration, from the opposing party, kept the veto in place.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: the EPA's January 2023 veto under Clean Water Act section 404(c), which barred mine waste disposal at the site.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: settlement talks with the developer failed in July 2025, and the EPA said it would keep defending the veto.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: the developer's lawsuit over the veto, which was at oral argument stage in June 2026.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: commercial fishers, sport fishing businesses and Washington state fishing jobs backed the veto.
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: the Bristol Bay salmon fishery's 2019 economic value of more than US$2.2 billion and about 15,000 jobs.
- None on record The developer is not named in the sources reviewed, and the lawsuit's status after 2025 is not stated.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
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Press and investigations
- Trump's EPA reaffirms Biden-era Pebble mine vetoAlaska Public Media · 2025-07-24
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