The federal court sided with government and with intervenors represented by Earthjustice

New decision restores legal consensus of five presidential administrations including Democrats and Republicans and allows for science-based decision on where risky mining is appropriate.

Applauds Biden administration decision to put science over politics

The result is a major step forward for all who work to preserve unspoiled and special wild spaces within the U.S.

Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland has approved the mineral withdrawal of over 200,000 acres of Superior National Forest lands

Dangerous mining plans threatened to ruin a pristine wilderness and a town’s thriving economy. Until we stepped in.

SEITC briefs the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights on Canada’s violations

Sen. Smith urges U.S. Forest Service to study harmful mining impacts in cherished wilderness area

Pollution from proposed Twin Metals mine would harm water quality and ecology in beloved wilderness area

Iconic wilderness, one of the most-visited in the U.S., protected from sulfide-ore mining in new bill

Tlingit Tribes originating along the Unuk River want a say in risky mining proposals

The Department of Interior reinstates 50-year-old mining leases upstream of the Boundary Waters

Petition from the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC) addresses Canada’s failure to regulate and prevent threats from large-scale mining operations in British Columbia

Prepared for Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC) as part of a petition submitted to Canadian environmental regulators affirming their historic presence along the Unuk River, which is threatened by rapidly expanding transboundary mining.

Sen. Smith urges U.S. Forest Service to study harmful mining impacts in cherished wilderness area

The Taku, Stikine, and Unuk rivers flow across the Canada-United States border, from headwaters in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia through Southeast Alaska to the sea. These watersheds are some of the largest and most productive salmon habitats remaining in the world. Alaska Native and First Nations peoples have harvested salmon and caribou from…

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There are 1,100 clear, peaceful lakes in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters wilderness. The Trump administration wants to add a sulfide mine or two.