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Nearly 50 Iron Range leaders and supporters of Mesabi Metallics Co. traveled to the Minnesota State Capitol yesterday to update the public and legislators on recent progress—and next steps—toward completing
Nearly 50 supporters of Mesabi Metallics Co. traveled to the Minnesota State Capitol Wednesday to update the public and legislators on recent progress and next steps toward completing a taconite
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland got into a tense exchange Tuesday with Sen. Josh Hawley after she defended shutting down a mining project that would have created more than 1,000 jobs.
From the column: "The Superior National Forest is a working forest, and its forest plan explicitly includes mining as a desired condition. The proposed Twin Metals mine is outside of both the wilderness area and the Mining Protection Area set up in the 1978 BWCA Act. It’s in an industrial region with existing and former mine pits, logging roads, quarries and more."
With new construction projects and fresh organizing, Minnesota union membership in 2021 grew to its highest level in 14 years, seemingly bucking a national trend that has seen memberships bouncing