Energy and Environment: In secret tapes, mine executives detail their sway over leaders from Juneau to the White House
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A group of environmentalists secretly recorded video conversations with top executives who are trying to get federal approvals for a controversial Alaska gold mine.
Mining executive Tom Collier, who boasted in secretly taped conversations that he had leveraged his ties to Republican officials to advance a controversial project, resigned Wednesday.
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