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Climate ChangeCollaborationEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectTribal Governments and First NationsIn Minnesota, the PolyMet mine pits renewable energy needs against tribes and the EPA
-The PolyMet Mining Corporation has been locked in a battle to open Minnesota’s first copper-sulfide mine for over 17 years.
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Minnesota Supreme Court to hear challenge in PolyMet case
-The Minnesota Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a challenge by environmentalists over portions of a lower court ruling involving a key permit for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine.
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Minnesota court sends PolyMet air permit case back to agency
-The court ruled that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency hadn’t sufficiently justified granting the permit after opponents raised allegations that PolyMet was planning a much larger mine.
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Minnesota Supreme Court weighs fate of PolyMet mine permits
-PolyMet wants to build the first of what could eventually be several copper-nickel mines in Minnesota.
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Equity and Environmental JusticeIndigenous CommunitiesIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake SuperiorLatest NewsLorraine BoissoneaultMinnesotaNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsConflicted Over Copper: PolyMet copper-nickel mine has been trapped in litigation
-This second part in a series on mining in Minnesota looks at PolyMet’s proposed mine and its legal battles against Native and environmental groups.
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Minnesota Supreme Court agrees to hear PolyMet permit appeal
-PolyMet pointed out that the DNR has already held a 15-year-long environmental review and permitting process that included numerous chances for the public to weigh in.
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Minnesota Court of Appeals sends PolyMet permit back to MPCA
-This is the fourth permit the Court of Appeals has rejected this year.
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AdvocacyCollaborationDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeGroundwater ContaminationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsWater Quality and Restoration Efforts‘Wiggle room,’ deleted emails, and a controversial phone call: What we learned after five days of testimony in the PolyMet hearing
-Everyone concedes the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s handling of a water pollution permit for the controversial PolyMet project was far from normal. The big question is whether it was improper.
