UPDATE 1-Biden admin still undecided on Minnesota copper mine project -Vilsack Reuters 3 hrs ago
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By Andrea Shalal and Ernest Scheyder
May 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Wednesday that the White House has not decided on the fate of the Twin Metals copper mining project in Minnesota, as it works to balance economic growth and strong opposition from environmentalists.
Vilsack s comments were among the first from a senior official in President Joe Biden s administration on the proposed underground mine, which environmentalists fear would permanently mar the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on the U.S.-Canada border.
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Minnesota s rural Airbnb hosts have seen earnings double during pandemic
The online rental service said earnings in Greater MN have doubled
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The COVID-19 pandemic had many vacationers looking for quiet getaways within driving distance of home - resulting in a windfall for rural Airbnb hosts.
The online rental service said hosts in Greater Minnesota have raked in $23 million since the beginning of the pandemic. That s nearly double the amount they earned in 2019.
The typical rural Minnesota host has taken in $6,900 over the past 12 months, Airbnb told Bring Me The News. Normally, these hosts would earn about $3,300 over the course of a summer.
Nearly 166,000 people visited the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness last summer â a 16 percent jump from the previous year â and the most in at least a decade, according to a new report from the U.S. Forest Service.
There was an even bigger increase in the number of permits issued for visits between May and September.
The report, released Tuesday, shows what many people saw firsthand last year: a huge surge of campers and paddlers flocking to the remote wilderness of the Boundary Waters, along the Canadian border, after the lockdowns prompted by the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic eased.
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