{"id":29038,"date":"2017-03-22T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/pebble-epa-seek-more-time-to-try-to-resolve-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T22:03:21","slug":"pebble-epa-seek-more-time-to-try-to-resolve-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/pebble-epa-seek-more-time-to-try-to-resolve-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pebble, EPA seek more time to try to resolve lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU \u2014<\/strong> Additional time has been requested to try to resolve a lawsuit brought against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by the group pursuing a gold-and-copper mine in southwest Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for the Pebble Limited Partnership and EPA on Monday asked that the lawsuit remain on hold until May 4. Monday was the deadline for a status update.<\/p>\n<p>The joint motion states that the parties have made \u201csubstantial progress in recent discussions\u201d and are focused on trying to find a mutually agreeable resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The motion states that representatives from the government\u2019s \u201ccareer leadership\u201d and the new administration are involved in the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Pebble sued EPA, alleging the agency had worked with mine critics with a predetermined goal to block the project.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for the EPA have called the lawsuit an effort to undermine an agency proposal to protect parts of the Bristol Bay region from development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 Additional time has been requested to try to resolve a lawsuit brought against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by the group pursuing a gold-and-copper mine in southwest Alaska. Attorneys for the Pebble Limited Partnership and EPA on Monday asked that the lawsuit remain on hold until May 4. Monday was the deadline for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29038"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}