U.S. SENATOR TINA SMITH'S STATEMENT ON MINNESOTA STATE GOVERNMENT'S EXECUTIVE ACTIONS TO PREVENT COPPER-NICKEL MINING IN THE WATERSHED OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- Sen. Tina Smith issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) released the following statement after the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced it will take aggressive executive action to stop a copper-sulfide mine within the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA):

"Minnesotans strongly support protecting the Boundary Waters. We are a mining state, but not this mine in this place. The Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress ignored the science and overturned protections for the Boundary Waters, but the fight continues here at home," said Senator Smith. "I strongly support Minnesota using all our regulatory powers...