Connelly: Snubbing salmon, EPA's Pruitt revives Bristol mine
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt is in the news over his $25,000 secure phone booth and taxpayer paid travels by private jet.
But Pruitt stands to have a much greater impact for abandoning EPA's effort, under the Clean Water, to block a giant proposed gold, copper and molybdenum mine in Alaska. Pruitt met May 1 with the mine project's CEO.
The mine would be located between the headwaters of two prime Bristol Bay salmon spawning streams. Bristol Bay is one to the world's greatest sockeye salmon fishery, at which more than 14,000 people work.