Representatives Pete Stauber and Betty McCollum, along with Senator Tina Smith have all introduced bills concerning mining ...

The legislation would make permanent a 20-year ban on that type of mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest in the ...

Minnesota's million-acre (400,000-hectare) Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is the second largest wilderness east of the Rockies and surprisingly easy to access. Bill Forsberg, Jr., owner of ...

This legislation builds on years of advocacy by U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, also a Minnesota Democrat, who has championed the ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is America's most-visited federally designated wilderness area. This 1.1 million–acre expanse is located in the northern third of the Superior National Forest ...

The permits could have allowed Antofagasta’s Twin Metals Minnesota to significantly expand its proposed sulfide-ore copper mine at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern ...

House Representatives Pete Stauber and Betty McCollum, along with US Senator Tina Smith, have all introduced bills concerning ...

Tina Smith is making preventing new mining near a Minnesota wilderness a priority ... make permanent Biden-era mining limits near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Smith, 67, is also ...

On Wednesday, DFL Sen. Tina Smith introduced the "Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act." It marks the first time in 50 ...

U.S. Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota has introduced legislation to permanently ban mining for copper, nickel and precious metals ...