Minnesota's Boundary Waters are pristine. Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' could pollute them forever
A little-known provision would open thousands of nearby acres to a foreign mining company, risking acid drainage
A little-known provision of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would open thousands of acres of public lands at the edge of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters wilderness to a foreign-owned mining company.
The move amounts to a giveaway “in perpetuity” to a company that has lobbied in Washington for years, environmental campaigners say, potentially opening up one of the US’s most famous wilderness areas to water-pollution risks.
Earlier this month, conservationists cheered when Congress withdrew from the reconciliation bill several provisions that would have sold off hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land in Nevada and Utah. Those provisions had sparked fury among public land advocates and staunch opposition even from some Republicans, including the representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, who vowed to oppose the bill if the land sell-off provisions were retained.
Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/minnesota-boundary-waters-pollution
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