The agency urged the Legislature to consider whether tailings storage and processing methods are "compatible" in the same watershed as the wilderness area.
The administration is bringing back an Obama-era decision, later reversed by Trump, that bans new mineral leases on 225,500 acres of the Superior National Forest for the next two decades.
The Republican candidate for governor called for supporting copper-nickel mining in northern Minnesota, a controversial practice that could bring many high-paying jobs to the region but threaten to pollute its water resources.
During a Friday, May 6, visit to St. Paul, Haaland said she couldn’t disclose if her agency would allow the proposed mine to move forward after the Interior canceled two mineral leases for Twin Metals, the company that wants to develop the mine. The secretary of the interior wasin Minnesota to announce nearly $9 million in federal funding for urban parks in the state.
ST. PAUL-U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan, a Democrat from northeast Minnesota, announced Friday, Feb. 9, he won't seek re-election.Nolan, who has served off and on in Congress since 1975, said his decision was based on a desire to spend time with his family...
To the editor:A recent Echo Press article introducing the readers to a new, proposed 42-acre aggregate mining operation near Lake Vermont needs a bit more exposure to daylight.This is not your typical isolated farm field sand and gravel pit. This...
Douglas County commissioners voted Tuesday to table a decision on whether or not further environmental impact review is needed for a proposed gravel mining operation near Miltona.
