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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Minnesota’s Boundary Waters are pristine. Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ could pollute them forever

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The 1.1m-acre wilderness area is the only large-scale protected sub-boreal forest in the lower 48 states. Photograph: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images
  • The story is co-published with Public Domain, an investigative newsroom that covers public lands, wildlife and government

A little-known provision of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would open thousands of acres of public lands at the edge of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters wilderness to a foreign-owned mining company.

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