May 05, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has urged the Army Corps of Engineers not to reissue a permit for a proposed PolyMet Mining Inc. copper-nickel mine in Minnesota, saying there's no way to do so that would meet the Fond du Lac Band's water quality standards.
March 22, 2021
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suspended a Clean Water Act permit for a proposed copper mine in Minnesota so that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has time to reexamine its effects on downstream water quality.
February 16, 2021
The U.S. government can't avoid a suit by a Minnesota tribe claiming it violated the law by refusing to make a determination about the potential water quality impacts of a proposed copper mine, a federal judge said Tuesday.
September 01, 2020
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a Minnesota mining company have failed to show that a federal court should toss a tribe's challenge to agency inaction on certain copper mine permit approvals, the northeastern Minnesota tribe said Monday.
July 28, 2020
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants a court to throw out a tribe's challenge to its decision not to object to pollution permit approvals for a Minnesota mine, saying it was wholly within the agency's discretion not to speak up against them.