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

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

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

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration ...

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

Environmental activists are breathing a sigh of relief after a provision to open up the land near the Boundary Waters to ...

The bill would have stripped protections from the Boundary Waters watershed, opening the door to potentially toxic copper ...

Jana talks with Minnesota DFL Senator Tina Smith about the removal of a mining provision affecting the Boundary Waters from the federal budget.

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 ...