HJ Res. 140 signed into law
 

Update: On April 27, the President signed H.J. Res. 140 into Law. This legislation used the rarely used Congressional Review Act (CRA) and officially revoked Public Land Order (PLO) 7917, which protected over 225,000 acres of federal land in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters and Voyageurs National Park from the threat of sulfide-ore copper mining for 20 years.

On April 16, the Senate passed H.J. Res. 140, a devastating bill that unravels protections for the Boundary Waters watershed. This harmful resolution strips away critical, science-based, broadly popular protections from the headwaters of the Boundary Waters, opening its fragile waterways to copper mining and putting these pristine waters at permanent risk. 

Minnesota can—and must—be the backstop against these unprecedented attacks on the Wilderness. Learn more here and contact your state elected officials.

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