“We categorically deny any reports that the Trump Administration is going to return to an Obama-like approach that allowed politics to interfere with the normal, traditional permitting process.
The head of one of the nation's biggest environmentalist groups said he believes the Trump administration will stop the project.
Stopping Pebble Mine was the right decision by the Obama administration in 2014 and we thank the Trump administration for making the right decision today."
The mine, long a source of controversy and litigation, was seen by many as getting a second wind under the Trump administration.
But the agency never finalized the restrictions and, under the Trump administration, allowed the Pebble partnership to go through permitting.