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 Beautiful ...

The Senate has asked the House to strike the reversal of the Boundary Waters mineral lease withdrawal from the Big Beautiful ...

The bill has already passed in the House and is now facing pushback in the Senate, where one Minnesota senator is celebrating ...

After a mining provision was removed from the 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' Trump officials say they are working to allow mining ...

Sen. Tina Smith was able to raise a red flag on a section in President Trump's budget bill that would have reopened the ...

Lawmakers are pushing to strip the provision from the bill. Lawmakers outraged after discovering fine print that puts beloved ...

U.S. House committee approved removing language on mineral leases in northeastern Minnesota; Senate likely to follow.

Democratic Sen. Tina Smith says she successfully fought to remove a provision deep in the bill to allow a Chilean-owned ...

Provisions that would affect the Boundary Waters were scrapped on concerns they would not pass muster under Senate ...