Four Lawsuits Now Seek to Block PolyMet Mine Land Exchange
Mine is Near Babbitt
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-Environmental groups have now filed four lawsuits seeking to prevent the U.S. Forest Service from swapping land for the planned PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. The exchange deal calls for trading 6,650 acres of federal land that PolyMet needs for its mine near Babbitt for a similar amount of private land nearby in the Superior National Forest. Lawsuits…
