ON THIS DAY IN 2023: Maria’s environmental victory for Bristol Bay

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WA Sen. Maria Cantwell’s great week highlights Alaska’s identity crisis
For more than 20 years now [Cantwell has] led filibusters or other efforts against oil drilling in ANWR, against old-growth logging in the state’s vast coastal rainforests, and now against the nation’s most enormous mine.
The Seattle Times

E.P.A Bans Disposal of Mine Waste in Bristol Bay
Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington, one of the first lawmakers to oppose the project, said she was “ecstatic” about the E.P.A. action.
New York Times

“It might be the knockout punch in a long battle to save fishing jobs in Washington.”
KIRO Radio

EPA may have dealt final ‘nail in the coffin’ to Alaska’s Pebble Mine
“This is the final nail in the coffin for the Pebble Mine,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash). She added the mine “would have devastated Bristol Bay salmon” and the thousands of families that depend on that fishery.
The Washington Post

“No company will ever be able to stick a mine on top of some of the best salmon habitat in the world.”
Senator Maria Cantwell

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