Bad Neighbors: Who Are the Companies Seeking to Open Copper-Sulfide Mines in Minnesota?
PolyMet and Twin Metals, the two companies seeking to open copper-sulfide mines in Minnesota are shell companies controlled…
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…
The Battle Over Roads in the Boundary Waters
In the 1920s, the issue of where to build roads and how to manage the wilderness character of northeastern…