Glacier Creek, a tributary of the Klehini River. An administrative judge ruled the Alaska DEC had inadequately analyzed water pollutant levels when it issued a permit for the nearby mining exploration project. Lex

The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation made what environmental and tribal groups called a “mixed” decision on an appeal about a wastewater permit for a mining exploration project 35 miles north of Haines.

The administrative appeal decision on the Palmer Project upholds…