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Republican lawmakers are reviving the debate over a mining project in Minnesota as the House prepares to vote on a measure that would repeal Biden-era protections for a wilderness area. The resolution from Rep.

Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) seeks to overturn a rule established by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, which withdrew over 225,000 acres of federal land from mineral and geothermal leasing in northeastern Minnesota until 2043. This withdrawal was intended to delay the proposed copper-and-nickel mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Rainy River watershed.