Mike Fitz, a former park ranger at Katmai National Park and the founder of Fat Bear Week, used to keep “a facade of neutrality.” Now he’s naming names.
The Biden administration is in talks with tribes, environmental groups and others fighting for dams to be removed from the lower Snake River in the Pacific Northwest.
The E.P.A. said it would ban the disposal of mining waste in the Bristol Bay watershed, a decision that very likely means the end of the Pebble Mine project.