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U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D) is joining environmentalists in celebrating successful efforts to block Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness mining permissions in President Donald Trump’s “Big ...
Tina Smith, a Democratic Senator from Minnesota, announced the news late Tuesday evening on social media. “Buried deep in President Trump and Republican’s [sic] Big Beautiful Bill was a provision that ...
Provisions that would affect the Boundary Waters were scrapped on concerns they would not pass muster under Senate parliamentary rules.
Smith said deep in the bill, there was a provision to allow a Chilean-owned company permission to build a mine on the edge of the Boundary Waters.
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Breaking the News Plus | Sen. Tina Smith - MSNJana talks with Minnesota DFL Senator Tina Smith about the removal of a mining provision affecting the Boundary Waters from the federal budget.
Sen. Tina Smith was able to raise a red flag on a section in President Trump's budget bill that would have reopened the leases to a mine next to the Boundary Waters.
This comes shortly after Senator Tina Smith declared victory in the fight to protect the Boundary Waters, after a provision granting Chilean mining giant Antofagasta permission to open copper ...
Congress removed a provision from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would have allowed a mining project near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in ...
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