A Rundown of the PolyMet Scandal (Timeline)
Did Minnesota Pollution Control Agency suppress scientific concerns that PolyMet mine might violate the Clean Water Act? Catch…
Category: Advocacy
A Call For Transparency and Open Government
The MPCA tried to steamroll science and do a big favor for a polluting industry. When the regulators…
Something’s Rotten in the State of Minnesota
It's not unreasonable to expect agencies like the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to work in the interest of…
What’s Next for PolyMet, Minnesota’s First Permitted
Sulfide Mine
If sulfide mining, the most polluting industry in the country, comes to Minnesota, the state doesn’t have the…
Legal Action to Stop the Trump Administration’s Attack on the BWCA
In defending the Boundary Waters from the Trump Administration, lawyers for Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness filed motion,…
Infographic: The Boundary Waters and Sulfide Mining
As our lawsuit to protect the BWCA from the Trump administration works its way through the courts, we created…
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Issue Final Permit For PolyMet
The announcement that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the wetlands permit for PolyMet marked an end to…
Representative Lowenthal defends public lands, champions the Boundary Waters
Watch Representative Alan Lowenthal (D-California), chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, ask questions…
Two Mines. Two Watersheds.
One Threat
PolyMet is the snowplow that will clear the way for more sulfide mines in northeastern Minnesota, including Twin Metals…
How Cozy Is Twin Metals With the Trump Administration?
There is troubling evidence that a foreign corporation, Antofagasta, lobbied the Department of the Interior to open up the…