From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org):
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency took a big step backwards to reverse the EPA’s scientifically-based proposed Clean Water Act protections for Bristol Bay, Alaska. Nearly 100 miles of salmon streams could be destroyed and the world’s strongest commercial sockeye salmon populations could be decimated.
Go to http://act.alaskawild.org/sign/pebblemine/ to tell the EPA to protect Bristol Bay’s strong salmon runs and maintain protections they need to survive.
Because most salmon return to their birthplace to spawn, if their birthplace stream has been destroyed, nearly that entire population goes extinct. Most disappear forever. We can’t let the Pebble Mine risk 42% of the world’s wild salmon harvest.
But the EPA’s terrible plan threatens more than the strong sockeye salmon populations. It could harm 28 additional fish species, 190 types of birds, and numerous species of land animals that rely on these crucial waters. For at least 4,000 years people have subsided on wild salmon in Bristol Bay, and today the waters support a $1.5 billion fishing industry that provides nearly 20,000 jobs to the American people.
The public has overwhelmingly rejected the Pebble Mine project. More than 65 percent of all Alaskans, 80 percent of Bristol Bay residents, and 85 percent of commercial fisherman strongly oppose the Pebble Mine.
Please tell EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and the Trump administration not to pave the way for the Pebble Mine.
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