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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.

We don’t have time for reckless bills that continue to give handouts to polluting industries at the expense of people, our environment, and our planet.

“This week’s votes are the anti-Earth week nobody asked for.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Groups oppose H.R. 3195, efforts to void the Boundary Waters area mineral withdrawal.

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

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

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.