Staff & Contributors

From approving PolyMet to opposing Twin Metals — Former DNR Commissioner Landwehr jumps ship

Elanne Palcich

The PolyMet Poison Pill

Elanne Palcich

Nolan’s Last Hurrah

Dayton’s Toxic Legacy and the Permitting of PolyMet: the Loss of the Arrowhead Region

Elanne Palcich

The Campaign to “Give ‘em PolyMet, Stop ‘em at the Boundary Waters”

Elanne Palcich

Tina Smith, PolyMet, and the Toxic Path to Pollution

Elanne Palcich

PolyMet Update: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Elanne Palcich

PolyMet—The Toxic Trojan Horse

Elanne Palcich

The Permit to Mine: PolyMet’s Path to Perpetual Pollution

Elanne Palcich

Nolan’s Toxic PolyMet Bill Passes U.S. House

Elanne Palcich

Boundary Waters School Trust Land Exchange A Toxic Trade on the Horizon

Elanne Palcich

HR 3115: The PolyMet Bill - Nolan's War of Choice on Minnesota's Waters

Elanne Palcich

The Great Sulfide Mining Divide

Elanne Palcich

This is the iconic Arrowhead region of the state--not part of the Iron Range. Copper-nickel mineralization is a separate geological formation that underlies the network of forests, wetlands, rivers, lakes, and streams that form the basic ecosystem

PolyMet Mine Would Be Disastrous for Minnesota’s Arrowhead Region

Elanne Palcich

“The PolyMet EIS is a sanitized version of the impacts of sulfide mining upon the land, the water, the wildlife and the people. By endorsing the EIS, the DNR is ignoring both the use and pollution of water by mining operations

PolyMet’s Perilous Precipice

Elanne Palcich

Say No to Falling Off the Cliff

Boundary Waters Land Exchange: Giving away a legacy - The Boundary Waters land exchange dilemma

Elanne Palcich

The school trust land exchange has surfaced once again. Approximately 86,000 acres of state school trust and Swamp Land Act lands lie within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness