DULUTH, Minn. – Environmental groups are concerned about President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to allow copper-nickel mining in the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota.
During a July rally in St. Cloud Trump said he would, “within the first 10 to 15 minutes in office reverse the historic protections that we saw established by the Biden administration – a 20-year mining ban specifically on copper mining federal lands and minerals within the watershed of the Boundary Waters.”
Ingrid Lyons of Save the Boundary Waters says scientific research shows the area is the wrong place for copper-nickel mining and it would cause pollution and environmental degradation.
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