Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Two activists hold anti-Pebble Mine posters in a back row of the Wendy Williamson Auditorium during an EPA public comment meeting on the Draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment.
Activists hold anti-Pebble Mine posters at an EPA meeting in 2012. (Photo by Daysha Eaton)

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Wednesday on Alaska News Nightly:

The EPA proposes vetoing development of the Pebble Mine. As COVID case numbers rise, health officials urge older Alaskans to take extra precautions. And low Yukon River salmon runs could mean a season without subsistence salmon fishing.

Reports tonight from:

Izzy Ross in Dillingham
Tash Kimmel and Robert Woolsey in Sitka
Anna Rose MacArthur in Bethel
Kavitha George in Anchorage
Sabine Poux in Kenai
and Maria Dudzak in Ketchikan

Alaska News Nightly is hosted by Casey Grove, with producing and audio engineering from Toben Shelby and Katie Anastas.

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