The Washington Post - USA (2022-05-26)

THURSDAY, MAY 26 , 2022. THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A

BY DINO GRANDONI

The Biden administration an-
nounced Wednesday that it will
protect waters in Alaska that are
home to one of the world’s
b iggest salmon spawning
grounds, the culmination of a
long-running dispute that pitted
Alaska Natives against mining
interests.
The proposal from the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency is a
potentially fatal blow to a plan to
mine in the Bristol Bay water-
shed for gold, copper and other
valuable metals.
Bristol Bay, which sustains an
annual run of 37.5 million sock-
eye salmon, helps support a $
billion commercial fishing in-
dustry as well as a way of life for
Alaska Natives, who have vigor-
ously opposed the construction
of the Pebble Mine.
The EPA’s action, if finalized,

may finally put an end to a more

than decade-long legal and polit-

ical tussle over the fate of this

corner of southern Alaska as

President Biden strives to pro-

tect a greater share of the na-

tion’s wilderness.

“The Bristol Bay watershed is

a shining example of how our

nation’s waters are essential to

healthy communities, vibrant

ecosystems, and a thriving econ-

omy,” EPA Administrator Mi-

chael Regan said in a statement.

But the company behind the

mine, Pebble Limited Partner-

ship, said Wednesday that it will

still work to secure a permit to

dig up ore bearing gold, copper

and molybdenum, used as an

alloy in steel.

John Shively, the company’s

chief executive, said it is “ironic”

that the Biden administration

would block a domestic source of

copper, a crucial mineral for

renewable energy, when it has

set a goal of eliminating the

nation’s contributions to global

warming by the middle of the

century.

“This is clearly a giant step

backwards for the Biden Admin-

istration’s climate change goals,”

he said in a statement.

Using a rarely invoked author-

ity under the Clean Water Act to

protect wetlands from being pol-

luted with dumped waste, agen-

cy officials aim to ban the dispos-

al of mining debris within the

308-square-mile footprint of the

proposed project.

Over that ore deposit sit wa-

ters that teem with coho, chum

and, most notably, sockeye salm-

on. The fish have been a source of

food for southwest Alaska’s In-

digenous people for generations

and today attract big-spending

fishing enthusiasts from around

the world.

Alannah Hurley, executive di-

rector of United Tribes of Bristol

Bay, a consortium of tribal gov-

ernments, called the EPA’s an-

nouncement a “monumental

step.”

“Our tribes have been asking

for this for the last 12 years,”

added Hurley, who is Yup’ik. But

she warned that the federal gov-

ernment has come close to pro-

tecting these waters in the past,

only to fall short.

“We’ve been here before,” she

said.

Under President Barack

Obama, the EPA moved to re-

strict mining in 2014. But it did

not finalize the restrictions be-

fore he left office in 2017, as the

agency battled litigation from

the mining company.

At first, the Trump adminis-

tration cleared the way for the

firm to apply for a federal permit

to mine.

But then, an unlikely alliance

of Alaska Natives, environ -

mentalists and anglers — includ-

ing President Donald Trump’s

son Donald Trump Jr. and Fox

News host Tucker Carlson —

came out in opposition. The

release of secret recordings of

company executives added to the

pressure.

During Trump’s last months in

office, his team ultimately torpe-

doed a key permit.

Pebble Limited Partnership

argues that its hamstrung proj-

ect would have created 850 di-

rect jobs and generated more

than $150 million in state and

local taxes a year.

Shively, the chief executive,

pointed to a U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers conclusion in 2020

that the mine would have no

“measurable effect” on fish popu-

lations, noting that foreign min-

ers “simply do not have the same

environmental standards as we

do.”

But the current administra-

tion’s move to protect this wil-

derness was long expected, ever

since Biden vowed to block the

Pebble Mine during his presiden-

tial campaign.

But with other mining claims

nearby, many mine opponents

are calling for Congress to pass

more sweeping protections for

the 40,000 square miles that

make up the watershed.

“We’ll be playing whack-a-

mole for a long time with the

world’s best remaining salmon

stronghold until we permanently

protect this landscape,” said

Chris Wood, head of the conser-

vation group Trout Unlimited.

The EPA plans to hold hear-

ings on the decision in June. And

the public will be able to weigh in

with written comments until

July 5.

EPA proposal for Bristol Bay deals blow to mining plan

OHIO

State high court rejects

Republican maps again

A frustrated Ohio Supreme
Court rejected Republican-drawn
Statehouse maps for a fifth time
Wednesday, extending the string
of GOP defeats in a redistricting
process that has ground the
state’s legislative primaries to a
halt.
Chief Justice Maureen
O’Connor was clearly angered by
the Republican-dominated Ohio
Redistricting Commission’s
decision to resubmit maps that
the high court had already found
unconstitutional once before,
calling it “a stunning rebuke of
the rule of law.”
The court ordered the seven-
member panel to reconvene and
pass “entirely new” maps that
meet constitutional
requirements by June 3. Ohio’s
map fight comes amid the once-
per-decade political mapmaking
process that all states must

undertake to reflect population

changes from the U.S. census.

O’Connor (R) faulted a

separate, federal three-judge

panel for making her court’s job

more difficult. She said the

judges effectively rewarded the

redistricting commission’s

inaction when they signaled that

they would impose the rejected

legislative maps favored by

Republicans this Friday if the

state cases aren’t resolved by

then.

— Associated Press

ARKANSAS

Reality TV star gets

12 years for child porn

Former reality TV star Josh

Duggar was sentenced

Wednesday to about 12½ years in

prison after he was convicted of

receiving and possessing child

pornography.

Prosecutors had asked U.S.

District Judge Timothy Brooks

to give the maximum term of

20 years to Duggar, whose large

family was the focus of TLC’s “

Kids and Counting.”

The judge sentenced Duggar to

12 years and seven months in

prison.

Duggar was arrested in April

2021 after a Little Rock police

detective found that child porn

files were being shared by a

computer traced to Duggar.

Investigators testified that

images depicting the sexual

abuse of children, including

toddlers, were downloaded in

2019 onto a computer at a car

dealership Duggar owned.

TLC canceled “19 Kids and

Counting” in 2015 following

allegations that Duggar had

molested four of his sisters and a

babysitter years earlier.

Duggar’s parents said he had

confessed to the fondling and

apologized. After the allegations

resurfaced in 2015, Duggar

apologized publicly for

unspecified behavior and

resigned as a lobbyist for the

Family Research Council, a

conservative Christian group.

— Associated Press

NORTH CAROLINA

Settlement in death

of man in custody

The family of a Black man who

yelled that he couldn’t breathe

before he died in a North

Carolina jail in 2019 has reached

a $3 million settlement in its

wrongful-death lawsuit,

according to court documents

filed Wednesday.

John Neville’s family reached

the settlement with all five

former jailers who were initially

charged with involuntary

manslaughter in his death as well

as with the Forsyth County

government and Forsyth County

Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough Jr., the

Winston-Salem Journal reported.

The settlement was reached

during a mediation meeting

April 19. In that settlement, the

detention officers, Forsyth

County and Kimbrough do not

admit liability.

Neville died on Dec. 4, 2019,

after having a medical

emergency at the Forsyth County

jail. Kimbrough did not publicly

acknowledge Neville’s death until

about six months later, when he

was questioned by the Journal in

June 2020.

— Associated Press

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