Two-Year Study Proposed for Copper-Nickel Mining in BWCA
Study Still Up in the Air
ST. PAUL, Minn.-U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum says she has won assurances from the Trump administration that it will proceed with a two-year study on whether copper-nickel mining should be permitted on federal lands in the watershed that flows into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The Minnesota Democrat pressed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on the scientific review, which was launched under…
