Washington, July 27 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration has cleared a major hurdle for the proposed Pebble Mine, a multibillion-dollar copper and gold mine in Alaska that would be among the world’s largest. 

Environmentalists and local Indigenous communities have fought against the proposed mine for nearly two decades, saying it would poison their communities and devastate Bristol Bay’s salmon fishery. 

In other environmental news, a group of progressive Democrats, including Minnesota Congressmember Ilhan Omar and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, introduced a bill in Congress that would stop fossil fuel companies from receiving billions of taxpayer dollars in subsidies and federal coronavirus relief funds.