The bill has already passed in the House and is now facing pushback in the Senate, where one Minnesota senator is celebrating ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration ...

Provisions that would affect the Boundary Waters were scrapped on concerns they would not pass muster under Senate ...

After a mining provision was removed from the 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' Trump officials say they are working to allow mining ...

Environmental activists are breathing a sigh of relief after a provision to open up the land near the Boundary Waters to ...

The bill would have stripped protections from the Boundary Waters watershed, opening the door to potentially toxic copper ...

“Buried deep in President Trump and Republican’s [sic] Big Beautiful Bill was a provision that gave a foreign mining company full permission to build a copper-nickel sulfide mine right on the doorstep ...

“That was when 675,000 Americans commented, and over 98 percent of those who commented wanted the Boundary Waters permanently protected from sulfide-ore-copper mining,” Lyons says. “So we are really ...

An effort to jumpstart copper-nickel mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has died in Congress. A provision that would pave the way for mining in the Superior National Forest in ...