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Last year, the DNR recommended the Minnesota Legislature consider whether four practices — tailings storage, reactive waste rock, smelting and heap leaching — were safe if carried out near the BWCAW.
In a non-binding opinion, an administrative law judge said adding bentonite clay to the mine-waste slurry and lining the tailings basin with bentonite was impractical and would not meet state law.
REGIONAL—Congressman Pete Stauber is accusing the former Obama administration, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, of playing politics with their 2016 effort to head …
Climate change and other scientific evidence, about environmental degradation, from sulfide mining and all sorts of things. and now we even have politicized weather reports. what are they going to come up with? tornado watches in certain counties of pennsylvania and ohio on election day? i mean, this is crazy. and we tolerate this is crazy. we need to have an investigation, a criminal investigation, of what happened here, and the united states house oversight committee to convene a hearing. >> monica, you worked at noaa under -- in the clinton administration and also in the obama administratio...
Now it's affecting the weather. it's affected our national intelligence reports. it's affected our approach to climate change and other scientific evidence about environmental degradation from sulfide mining and all sorts of things. and now we even have politicized weather reports. what are they going to come up, tornado watches in certain counties of pennsylvania and ohio on election day? i mean this is crazy, and we tolerate this is crazy. we need to an investigation, a criminal investigation of what happened here in the united states house oversight committee ought to convene a hearing. >> ...