EPA office firmly against Rosemont as proposed

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a scorching pair of letters blasting the proposed Rosemont mine.

The agency’s San Francisco regional office wrote a letter that fiercely attacks the Forest Service’s draft environmental impact statement for the mine. EPA officials said later it’s one of the worst such statements they’ve seen, saying it underestimates the project’s environmental effects.

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