The Trump administration sells out a beloved wilderness to Ivanka's landlord
| Photo by Doug Schweigert/iStock Boundary Waters Betrayal Donald Trump’s penchant for lying has infected his cabinet. The result is a green light from the Trump administration for polluting mining operations right next to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, the country's most beloved federal wilderness. In May 2017, Trump's agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, promised Representative Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) that his agency would conduct a two-year, science-based study of the potential social, economic, and environmental dangers of mining of copper-sulfide ore on federal lands adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) wilderness. "I'm not smart enough to know to do without the facts base and the sound science," Perdue told a congressional panel, "and we are absolutely allowing [the study] to proceed."
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