Some supporters of the BWCA say they are against mining in the area as well. "We're pro clean water, we're not anti mining," Chris Knopf, Executive Director of Friends of the Boundary Waters, said.

ELY, Minn. — Mining near the Boundary Waters has been a painful debate for a while. Now in Washington, there is another chapter. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) raised a red flag on a section ...

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D) is joining environmentalists in celebrating successful efforts to block Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness mining permissions in President Donald Trump’s “Big ...

Not this place. The Boundary Waters are too precious. See you in court." In 2023, President Biden banned mining over approximately 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest.

Minnesota lawmakers introduce a bill to extend the state ban on mining in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It follows an executive order by President Trump that essentially cancels a ...

President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to reverse President Biden's 20-year moratorium on new mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on his first day in office.

This landmark legislation would ban all new copper-nickel mining on federal land near the Boundary Waters. It would permanently protect 225,000 acres of federal lands in an effort to leave the ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

Leaders from Trout Unlimited and Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters weigh in on the potential impacts of President Trump's Executive Order fast-tracking mining on public lands Von: Travis Hall 25.

Antofagasta, the Chilean mining conglomerate seeking to mine near the Boundary Waters, has an alarming history of environmental violations including toxic spills, water pollution and destruction ...

The Obama administration based its 2016 decision to further review mining here on concerns that copper-nickel mines could leak toxic materials into the protected Boundary Waters ecosystem.