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Congressman's View: Anti-mining, Anti-Northland bill demands to be rejected

From the column: "The Superior National Forest is a working forest, and its forest plan explicitly includes mining as a desired condition. The proposed Twin Metals mine is outside of both the wilderness area and the Mining Protection Area set up in the 1978 BWCA Act. It’s in an industrial region with existing and former mine pits, logging roads, quarries and more."

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Local View: Science grows stronger against copper mining near the Boundary Waters

From the column: "Even with the best of designs and best efforts, spills and leaks happen. Mining occurs in the natural environment, not in a controlled factory."

May 23, 2022 08:18 AM

Local

Grant Merritt, environmental attorney who battled Reserve Mining, dies at 88

A descendant of the "Seven Iron Men" who ushered the iron ore industry into Minnesota, Merritt devoted his life to defending the environment, especially Lake Superior.

May 20, 2022 09:10 AM

Minnesota

Interior secretary Deb Haaland open to visiting region affected by proposed Twin Metals mine

During a Friday, May 6, visit to St. Paul, Haaland said she couldn’t disclose if her agency would allow the proposed mine to move forward after the Interior canceled two mineral leases for Twin Metals, the company that wants to develop the mine. The secretary of the interior wasin Minnesota to announce nearly $9 million in federal funding for urban parks in the state.

May 06, 2022 06:01 PM

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National View: Reshore rare earth mineral manufacturing to keep U.S. strong

In the 21st-century economy, rare earth minerals are crucial for powering advanced electronics.

April 27, 2022 04:21 PM

By Marco Rubio

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National View: Biden’s EV Push May Hit Mining Regs Pothole

Industry experts say that while Biden’s announcement is helpful, his plan included no mention of the one thing industry experts said would help the most: Fixing the process for permitting mines.

April 22, 2022 08:42 AM

By Andrew Cline

Local

Minnesota Supreme Court to take up PolyMet water permit case

A judge had previously said the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency broke no laws or procedures by asking the U.S. Environmental Protect Agency to keep comments on the permit private.

April 20, 2022 07:30 AM

By Jimmy Lovrien

Letters

Reader's View: Pick carbon pricing over mining

Anyone who shudders at the thought of precious-mineral mining of any kind near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness should be quick to grasp the power of carbon pricing as the only thing that might save it.

April 09, 2022 11:43 AM

By Katya Gordon, Two Harbors

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In Response: Pro-mining column missed actual minerals solutions

From the column: "Of course, what bit of pro-sulfide mining rhetoric would be complete without shamelessly evoking child labor?"

April 06, 2022 02:44 PM

By Scott Beauchamp

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Local View: Mineral supply gaps inevitable without more US mining

From the column: "The Biden administration’s current proposed revocations of mineral mining leases for the Twin Metals Minnesota mine, the 20-year withdrawal of lands in Northeastern Minnesota from mining, and the refusal to grant a permit to the Resolution Copper Mine in Arizona hurt our ability to increase domestic mining."

April 06, 2022 10:50 AM

By Glenn Stevens Jr.

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National View: Rebuild US industrial base from the mines up

From the column: "If the president is serious about reshoring American manufacturing — and providing the supply chains his climate ambitions need while shoring up U.S. energy security — the Defense Production Act is exactly the tool he needs."

March 31, 2022 01:00 PM

By John Adams

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In Response: Mining forever the heart, soul of Northeastern Minnesota

From the column: "It was not Stauber but the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service which caused mining supporters to look like fools during a sham public-comment period to determine whether to implement a 20-year ban on mining."

March 29, 2022 01:18 PM

By Gerald M. Tyler and David Johnson

Letters

Reader's View: We don’t need new mining’s jobs or minerals

I worry about acid mine drainage into our streams, rivers, and wetlands.

March 28, 2022 12:52 PM

By John Munter, Warba