Jul. 28 at 10:38 PM
$NAK In February, following Executive Order 14156—Declaring a National Energy Emergency—the US Army Corps released a list and map of 700 projects that it seeks to exempt from its regulatory oversight using emergency procedures. This includes waiving several different Clean Water Act and Army Corps permits typically required for impacts to wetlands.
While the database lists at least 40 solar projects, the majority are fossil fuel-related infrastructure—pipelines, well pads, drilling sites, liquified natural gas terminals—as well as supporting infrastructure like transmission lines. It also includes the Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, a copper-gold-molybdenum mine that was denied a Section 404 Clean Water Act permit by the US EPA in 2003. The mine proposed to fill eight miles of salmon spawning habitat with mine tailings, and would have destroyed thousands of acres of wetlands.
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