New Administration Delays Cases Challenging CWA Permit Vetoes For Alaska Mine

( February 26, 2025, 9:09 AM EST) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal judge in Alaska will hold in abeyance for 90 days three consolidated cases challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s veto of Clean Water Act (CWA) discharge permits needed to develop a large southwestern Alaska copper and mine deposit as the new leadership of the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers learn about the cases....