"We need to mine more, and we should have started yesterday," Representative Steve Stauber (R-MN) said during a House hearing this afternoon.

While mining is, of course, necessary for many things in our modern society, it's also absolutely crucial to be thoughtful, intentional, responsible, and tactful about WHERE we actually extract minerals.

Arguably the worst place imaginable to start a copper mine is near one of America's most pristine Wilderness Areas, a place that has some of the cleanest, clearest water on the entire continent: Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

TOMORROW, the House is voting on Stauber's bill to allow a foreign-owned copper mine to start making plans that would almost certainly lead to the pollution of the Rainy River Watershed.

That watershed includes the Boundary Waters itself, the most visited Wilderness in the entire country, as well as Voyageurs National Park, and runs all the way into Hudson Bay.

In terms of public lands and waters, it's one of the worst congressional proposals I've ever seen. Like, except for outright sell-offs, it really doesn't—or even can't—get any worse than this one.

Please take a moment tonight to go to the Facebook and/or Instagram page of crucial Republican congresspeople and tell them, in a comment on their latest post(s), to vote against H.J. Res. 140.

Be polite, be direct, be specific, be concise, be adamant.

Find links to the social media pages of the Republican House Natural Resources Committee members in the link below.