The resolution introduced by U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber overturns the Biden-era mining moratorium on federal land within the Superior National Forest and Rainy River Watershed.
The U.S. Senate vote comes after Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., spoke for hours Wednesday evening in protest of a resolution authored by U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber to overturn the Biden-era mining moratorium.
The New York Times on April 8 reported that the president accepted a $37 million donation of steel made in Europe. It comes as more than 600 Iron Range miners have been laid off for a year.
The electric utility said it has long outgrown the aging Herbert Service Center in Duluth and is hoping to move its facilities to a plot of land north of the Duluth International Airport.
The resolution, if passed, would reverse a Biden-era ban on mining in the same watershed as the BWCAW. It passed the House in January, but the Republican-controlled Senate has yet to vote on it.
To help put the brakes on global warming, we need to burn less fossil fuels and build more clean-energy power plants, such as for wind and solar energy.
The limits, set in 2024 by the Biden administration, would reduce the taconite industry's mercury emissions by 33%. The industry missed Minnesota's 2025 reduction target of 72%.
