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Provision to allow for mining near the Boundary Waters stripped from budget bill

Updated at 3:15 PM
Environmental News

A controversial provision to open up a huge swath of federal land adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to mining for copper, nickel and other metals has been stripped from a massive budget bill moving through Congress.

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