Fishing Groups Claim Nearly 70 Percent of EPA Watershed Assessment Comments Oppose Pebble Mine

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Published July 3, 2013 at 2:46 PM AKDT

The EPA collected more than a half million comments in the second round about its Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment comment period. Opponents of the Pebble Mine claim that nearly 70 percept of the commenters support the assessment and are urging the EPA to stop the mine. KDLG’s Ben Matheson has more: