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 ...

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.

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 ...

“They claim to have consulted with the people of Minnesota about the Boundary Waters when they clearly have not.” Democratic U.S. Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota scoffed at the secretary's claim about a ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — 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 ...