Environmental advocates, Alaska Natives and commercial fishermen say they are at once confident and anxious as they wait for the EPA to announce a final ban on mining wastes in Bristol Bay, Alaska—home to one of the world’s largest salmon fisheries—that would effectively kill a gold and copper mine estimated to be worth $350 billion.
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