Dear John,

The Trump Administration is fast-tracking a mining project that could wipe out
some of the world’s last remaining wild salmon. Please donate now so we can stop this attack.
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Just upstream from Alaska’s Bristol Bay and its pristine salmon fishery, Pebble
Mine would poison the water with lead, arsenic, and other toxins -- harming the
wild salmon population and Indigenous communities in the region.

Now we have just a few weeks before a crucial decision deadline for the EPA,
which could determine whether this polluting project goes through or not. There’s no time to waste: Can you help us today, John?

Help stand up for Bristol Bay’s people and ecosystem over mining industry
profits, before it’s too late: Rush a donation of $10 or more to Friends of the
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[[link removed]]If built, the Pebble Mine would generate more than 10 billion tons of dangerous
waste, wipe out 90 miles of salmon streams, and pollute more than 5,000 acres of
wetlands, ponds, and lakes.

It would likely plummet the salmon population -- catastrophically impacting
local communities, whose livelihoods come from sustainably fishing in the last
great wild sockeye salmon fishery.

No wonder more than 80 percent of Bristol Bay residents -- including Native
people -- and more than 85 percent of commercial fishermen strongly oppose
Pebble Mine.

In 2014, the EPA determined that Pebble Mine would harm the salmon fishery and
laid out protections for Bristol Bay under the Clean Water Act. They had enormous support throughout the country: People submitted over 1.6
million public comments in support, including over 20,000 Alaskans.

But under the Trump administration, the EPA reversed course on its own proposed
salmon protections.

And now, an important deadline is coming up in just a few weeks on May 28th. By
then, the EPA must choose whether or not to designate Bristol Bay as an Aquatic
Resource of National Importance and invoke section 404(q) of the Clean Water Act
to ensure a thorough, adequate environmental review of the reckless Pebble
project.

Friends of the Earth just submitted 28,804 comments to EPA staff responsible for
the decision, urging them to invoke their authority so the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers doesn’t rush a flawed and inadequate Environmental Impact Statement
review of the mine in order to push forward permitting.

We need your support NOW to gear up for the crucial few weeks ahead, and likely
beyond.

Help protect the Bristol Bay community's ecosystem, lives, and livelihoods,
John: Donate $10 or more to Friends of the Earth today.

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[[link removed]]Before this pandemic, the local community was worried about the environmental
impacts that the proposed mine would have on a renewable and sustainable
resource: salmon.

Now locals are also worried about the coronavirus devastating their health and
the industry they heavily rely on -- as thousands of outside workers are trying
to come to their villages for the annual summer fishing season. This rural
region of Alaska is far from health facilities and will be hard-hit if the virus
spreads here.

The Curyung Tribe is a formally recognized cooperating agency with the review
process. It requested an extension from the Army Corps of Engineers to comment
on the preliminary final environmental impact assessment, because both the tribe
and the Army Corps are now urgently focused on responding to the pandemic.
Despite a responsibility to listen to the tribes, the Army Corps, sadly, did NOT
grant the tribal council enough time.

So now, in addition to pushing the EPA to protect Bristol Bay, Friends of the
Earth organized more than 30,000 members to demand the Army Corps of Engineers
halt Pebble Mine’s final environmental review and permitting until the COVID-19
crisis is over.

Right now, the Army Corps should be focused on protecting people from the
coronavirus (which the Bristol Bay community is scrambling to do), not
permitting a destructive mine opposed by the overwhelming majority of the local
community.

But under Trump’s corrupt administration, anything is possible. That’s why we
need your support to ramp up the campaign right now, so we can protect the
Bristol Bay community's ecosystem, lives, and livelihoods.

Help protect Indigenous communities and one of the world's last great salmon
runs. Donate $10 or more to Friends of the Earth today.

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[[link removed]]Thank you,
Marcie Keever,
Oceans and vessels program director,
Friends of the Earth

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