Demand the EPA protects Bristol Bay and help end the dangerous Pebble Mine once and for all!

Sockeye salmon is a Bristol Bay icon, generating 15,000 jobs and feeding people around the world. And for local Indigenous communities, such as the Yup’ik, Dena’ina, and Alutiiq peoples, salmon offer food, anchor culture, and promote spiritual well-being.

The EPA recently proposed additional protections for Bristol Bay, and if finalized, these regulations could put one of the last nails in Pebble Mine’s coffin.

But the company behind Pebble Mine isn't giving up. So you and I can't either. Pebble Mine isn’t just a threat to the wilderness but to the very way of life for Bristol Bay community members.

Victory is within reach -- but without your help, we risk letting it slip between our fingers.

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Dear Administrator Regan:

I write to ask the EPA to take immediate action under Section 404(c) to finish the job it started in 2014 and protect Bristol Bay from large-scale mining like the Pebble Mine.

Last season, Bristol Bay shattered records and celebrated the return of 66 million salmon. Integral to that extraordinary run is the region’s environmental sustainability—something the science unequivocally confirms that the proposed Pebble Mine would jeopardize. Bristol Bay is home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon fishery, supplies 57 percent of the world’s wild sockeye salmon, generates $2.2 billion annually, and supports 15,000 American jobs.

But salmon are more than the economic engine of the region: Salmon is life in Bristol Bay. As they have for millennia, the wild salmon returning each year to Bristol Bay ensure Alaska Native communities’ ways of life. Salmon feed its people, anchor its culture, sustain its wildlife, and are indispensable to both the practical and spiritual well-being of Bristol Bay’s indigenous peoples. Given what’s at stake, there is no question that EPA has the support of the people to move diligently and quickly under Section 404(c) to protect Bristol Bay from large-scale mining like the Pebble Mine. And given the clear science and existing administrative record supporting immediate 404(c) action—there is no question that EPA’s decision to resume the 404(c) process is the right one.

I look forward to seeing swift EPA action and a robust administrative process that ensures the people of Bristol Bay can continue future fishing seasons with durable 404(c) Clean Water Act protections in place.

Sincerely,
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