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In https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-16-2026 Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American wrote: > Today the Senate passed House Joint Resolution 140, a bill that > overturns a 20-year mining ban upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe > Area Wilderness (BWCA) in Minnesota. Representative Pete Stauber (R-MN) > introduced the measure, which passed the House in January. It clears > the way for a subsidiary of Chilean mining giant Antofagasta to engage > in copper-sulfide mining, which produces sulfuric acid, above the > pristine BWCA. Based upon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watersheds_of_North_America it would appear that the BWCA may drain north to the Hudson. If not, then it certainly drains to the Great Lakes.