1. United States
2. Ind.
3. Letter

I am writing as a constituent to demand you take immediate action to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from sulfide-ore copper mining. The Senate’s 50-49 vote to overturn the Biden-era 20-year mining moratorium — using the Congressional Review Act to bypass the standard 60-vote threshold — is a procedurally reckless decision with permanent environmental consequences. The facts are not ambiguous: • The U.S. Forest Service’s own environmental review concluded mining here would cause irreversible harm • 95% of 675,000 public comments opposed the mining • 100% of similar copper mines have resulted in water pollution • The beneficiary is Antofagasta, a Chilean corporation, mining American public land for copper to be shipped and smelted in China The Boundary Waters is a 1.1 million-acre federal wilderness — one of the most visited in the country — sitting atop interconnected lakes and streams where toxic acid mine drainage would spread rapidly and permanently. This is not a trade-off between jobs and environment. This is a foreign corporation extracting American natural resources at the permanent expense of American freshwater, American wilderness, and American communities I am demanding of you to: 1. Publicly oppose this resolution and urge the President to veto it 2. Co-sponsor legislation to restore and codify the mineral withdrawal 3. Support permanent federal wilderness protections for the Boundary Waters watershed This wilderness belongs to every American. Protect it. Turnabout will be fair play when democrats retake the senate. I hope you don’t complain when they use similar underhanded parliamentary tricks now that you’ve set the precedent.