( November 5, 2026, 12:25 PM EST) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal judge in Alaska ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division’s approval of a company’s dredge mining permit for a five-year gold mining project in the Bonanza Channel was arbitrary and capricious, finding that the division failed to adequately explain in its reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Clean Water Act (CWA) why it departed from the findings of its Alaska District office regarding the environmental impacts of the project....