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Permitting Minnesota’s mines: what can we learn?

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 7, 2020 |

Northshore processing plant

A deep dive into the permitting process for the decades-old Northshore mine and the proposed PolyMet mine reveals a lot about the flaws in the system.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Pollution, Regulation

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