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Stauber mining resolution sits in Senate as clock ticks

The Senate delay may reflect legislative priorities and concerns over the Congressional Review Act, while environmentalists warn the mining ban rollback risks pollution to the Boundary Waters.

WASHINGTON — As the deadline approaches, the U.S. Senate has yet to take up the resolution that would reverse a 20-year mining ban on federal land within the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The resolution, introduced by Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Hermantown, nullifies a Biden administration-era moratorium on mining across 225,504 acres of the Superior National Forest. It passed the House in January. Environmental groups ex…

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Duluth News Tribune broke the news in Cherokee County, United States on Friday, March 20, 2026.
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