The April 8 CVN “This Week in History” section included a story from 1996, when Coeur Alaska withdrew its state-of-the-art treatment plan for contaminated wastewater at the Kensington project because members of the public demonstrated it would lead to violations of state water quality standards and the federal Clean Water Act. Soon after, the Bush administration devised a work-around: they redefined the word “fill” to include toxic mine tailings to make it legal for the…