No one promoting sulfide mining in Minnesota can say they are pro-clean water, not when the reality of sulfide mining is perpetual water pollution. Articles continually refer to supporters of sulfide ...

DULUTH — As the DFL convention in Duluth starts its second day, delegates will debate more than 100 items that will set the party's agenda this year. Looming among those is a proposed ban on ...

Northeastern Minnesota, and the entire state, have been given a huge opportunity. The question is, do we have the creativity and collective will to seize it? Last week, the Bureau of Land Management ...

A bill that would end the moratorium on sulfide mining in Wisconsin also retools other regulations aimed at easing the way for future mining projects in the state. The legislation is sure to spark a ...

During the last week of September, I was hunting ruffed grouse in northern Minnesota not far from the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, where I’ve paddled, camped ...

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According to the recent Star Tribune/MPR poll, 60% of Minnesotans oppose new mining projects near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA), such as the proposed Twin Metals and PolyMet copper-sulfide ...

While growing up in northern Minnesota during the 1980s, I camped, hiked, hunted, trapped and fished on public lands in places like the Superior National Forest and its Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

MARQUETTE, MI-- The Green Party of Michigan has renewed its support for a moratorium on metallic sulfide mining in the state. At a recent membership meeting in Marquette, the party agreed the proposed ...

Legislation introduced recently by Rep. Alice Hausman and Sen. Jim Carlson would go a long way toward ensuring that Minnesota doesn't suffer the same fate that other states have from sulfide mining.

The ongoing mining debate taking place in northern Minnesota pits the love of some of the world’s most scenic beauty with the practical need for precious metals and economic development. Up the North ...

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum introduced a bill Wednesday that would permanently prevent copper-nickel mining within the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Boundary Waters ...