Environmentalists Weigh Pushback Against Alaska's 401 Mine Approval

Environmentalists are weighing options for opposing Alaska's Clean Water Act (CWA) section 401 certification of a gold mine that rejected advocates' calls for broad consideration of water impacts and deferred certain risks to other agencies, highlighting disagreement over the scope of states' 401 reviews. An environmentalist attorney tells Inside EPA that advocates are considering administrative options and possibly litigation to challenge the Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) Aug. 10 CWA 401 certification of the Donlin Gold Mine, west of...