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Shame on the “Public Lands Caucus” for selling out the Boundary Waters to a foreign mining corporation. And shame on hunting and angling groups who keep propping up Ryan Zinke as a public lands hero.

“These are good mining jobs,” Representative Pete Stauber (R-MN) said on the House floor this afternoon. He’s the congressman who introduced the Boundary Waters pollution bill, which was passed by the full House today and is now headed to the Senate.

But are they good mining jobs, though?

Will a sulfide-ore copper mine—one the most polluti…

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