Bishop Statement on EPA’s Pebble Mine Announcement RELEASE DATE: May 12, 2017 Washington, D.C. – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an agreement to allow the Pebble Mine project in southwest Alaska to proceed to regular permitting under the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The proposed mineral development project was preemptively denied by the Obama administration outside of the traditional NEPA process. John Shively. Northern Gas Pipelines file photo by Dave Harbour (We note that this was one of many instances wherein [...]