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.
Joseph Goldstein found healing and purpose in the Boundary Waters. Now, the Trump administration says it wants to open the wilderness area's watershed up to mining.
In 2020, Earthjustice sued the Trump administration on behalf of the Wilderness Society, Izaak Walton League of America, and the Center for Biological Diversity for improperly renewing two federal mining…
U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper agreed with the government and intervening groups that Twin Metals failed to raise a proper claim and that the court did not have jurisdiction…
Plaintiffs challenge the BLM's failure to comply with NEPA when it issued two hardrock mining lease renewals, to Twin Metals Minnesota, in an area adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe…
This action challenges an attempt by the Bureau of Land Management to rescind a final decision issued nearly one and a half years previously. The Bureau’s previous decision, dated December…
