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 ...

Mining near the Boundary Waters has been a painful debate for a while. Now in Washington, there is another chapter. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) raised a red flag on a section in President ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...