Our View: Federal action gives modern mining the chance it deserves

Scores of Forest Service plans could be upended after Boundary Waters mining vote

Congress’ move to allow mining in a national forest near a wilderness area may have broad ramifications across the country. The U.S. Senate voted April 16 to overturn a mining ban in Minnesota’s Superior National Forest, the headwaters of the...

Our View: Federal action gives modern mining the chance it deserves

Despite what you may have been led to believe by the barrage of doomsday fear that followed a U.S. Senate vote last week to end a mining ban in northern Minnesota, no new mine is imminent. Further, the Boundary Waters aren’t now under any new or additional threat. Federal protections for the national treasure — as well as for a buffer zone around the wilderness that offers even wider safeguards from pollution and other impacts — remain in place …