1. United States
2. Fla.
3. Letter

While Americans are enjoying an evening meal, maybe some entertainment, or even working a second or third job just to afford to live, the Senate is busy trying to strip the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota of its protections against mining. H.J. Res. 140 uses the Congressional Review Act to strip a 20-year mining ban protecting 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest that feeds directly into the Boundary Waters watershed. The mine would be operated by Twin Metals, a subsidiary of a Chilean company with a deal to smelt the copper in China. Foreign company with foreign profits. American wilderness destroyed. China gets the copper. We get the pollution. This reversal would essentially be permanent. Our beautiful natural resources being raped and destroyed, all for the benefit of China. You should be ashamed this is even up for a vote. I'm horrified that you would even consider supporting it. Do the right thing and vote against this resolution.