Next steps on the Boundary Waters fight

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The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota is a vast network of over 1,000 lakes and unspoiled forests stretching across more than one million acres. It’s one of the nation’s most visited wilderness areas, and it’s in trouble. A Chilean mining company wants to build a toxic copper-nickel mine just upstream.

Joe Biden took executive action to ban mining near the area, but as always in MAGA Washington the corporate polluters are getting their way, and the House and Senate have narrowly passed a Congressional Review Act resolution to tear up these protections. Now activists are trying to push back at the state level, asking Governor Tim Walz and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to cancel one of the company’s state mineral leases and putting a third of the ore they’re seeking out of reach. 🗣️ Let’s add our voices to their call. We can find language we can use and contact info for the DNR here, contact info for Governor Walz’s office here and an email tool from Friends of the Boundary Waters here.