The Biden administration is banning mining for 20 years in a giant watershed near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the president’s latest effort to deliver on conservation ...

From the column: "Unfortunately, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ... threaten(s) the health of the Boundary Waters." ...

The Boundary Waters has been the center of a political tug-of-war for more than a decade. The Obama administration halted mineral exploration leases in 2016, only for them to be renewed under Trump.

Potential for Mining near the Boundary Waters. Clip: Season 2025 Episode 23 | 6m 42s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Chris Knopf and Julie Lucas debate new developments to a decades-long fight.

The prospect of a new copper-nickel mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) is sounding alarm bells among environmental groups. “Now that President Trump is in office, the ...

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) reintroduced a bill on Jan. 21 to ban sulfide-ore copper mining in the Boundary Waters while advocacy groups and University of Minnesota students worry for the ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Supporters of expanding mining and drilling near the Boundary Waters are cheering another executive order from President Trump. The "Unleashing America's Energy" order, which Trump ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota is the most visited wilderness area in the United States. Photo by U.S. Forest Service “This executive order threatens all of America’s ...

Trump moves to revive copper mining near Boundary Waters The Associated Press // June 12, 2025 // A prospecting drill rig bores into the bedrock near Ely, Minnesota, on Oct. 4, 2011, in search of ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Multiple lawmakers from Minnesota have introduced legislation concerning mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness this year. State Representatives Pete Stauber, R ...

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 ...