Northern Dynasty Minerals is confident it will secure a new partner for its contested undeveloped Pebble copper/gold project in Alaska following the announcement Friday that First Quantum Minerals will not exercise an option for a share in the project.

The major financial investor in the Pebble Mine project has pulled out...dealing a serious blow to the firm’s plan to build a controversial gold and copper mine near rich salmon fishing grounds at Alaska’s Bristol Bay.

The recreational and commercial fishing industries don’t always see eye to eye on resource issues. But when foreign mining interests jeopardize the world’s largest salmon fishery, our fishermen stand united.

Another investor in a planned Alaska gold and copper mine is now calling on the mine’s financial benefactor to rethink its investment.

Last week, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said he would hold off on withdrawing that finding, while allowing the permitting process to go forward.

The trustee of two of the world's largest pension funds is ratcheting up pressure on the Pebble copper and gold prospect, urging a large mining company to cut its ties to the project over what he calls environmental risks and threats to shareholders.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced late Friday that he will not scrap the agency's 2014 determination that a large-scale mining operation could irreparably harm Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed.

Pebble Partnership, which hopes to build a gold and copper mine in Alaska, isn’t denying suggestions that it might someday try to expand the project...

The would-be developer of the widely opposed Pebble Mine copper and gold project in salmon-rich southwestern Alaska announced on Thursday it will file its first application for a permit.

First Quantum has agreed to buy in at $150 million, paid in four installments over the next four years.

Trump's administration announced Friday that it won't require mining companies to prove they have the financial wherewithal to clean up their pollution, despite an industry legacy of abandoned mines that have fouled waterways across the U.S.

At a time when Americans are being told to eat more fish... we should be doing everything we can to protect the last remaining wild seafood we still have. That’s why I’ve joined the Businesses for Bristol Bay coalition.

One of the most contentious environmental fights of the past 30 years is suddenly back in the news, now that EPA head Scott Pruitt is poised to withdraw measures protecting the bay's storied salmon runs

Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt met on May 1 with the CEO of the Pebble Limited Partnership... Little more than an hour later... the administrator directed his staff to reverse Obama-era protections for Bristol Bay.

Within hours of meeting with a mining company CEO, the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency directed his staff to withdraw a plan to protect the watershed of Bristol Bay, Alaska, one of the most valuable wild salmon fisheries on Earth.

A debate is brewing in Alaska over what's worth more – the gold in the ground, or the gold in the water. A record 60 million salmon surged through the state's Bristol Bay last month. Some 30 million were caught and will feed half of the world's demand.

The EPA announced July 11 that it was starting the process to withdraw the proposed determination reached under President Barack Obama’s administration to prohibit large-scale mining in Bristol Bay — a roundabout way of saying the Pebble mine project.

The Environmental Protection Agency has settled an ongoing lawsuit with the Pebble Limited Partnership and says the company can apply for a federal permit for its proposed massive gold and copper mine in the Bristol Bay watershed.