The Wisconsin state Senate has passed a GOP bill that would close sections of forest around a northwestern Wisconsin mine site.

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A Republican state senator is proposing scaling back potential access restrictions to the forest surrounding iron mine site just south of Lake Superior.

Tagged with: iron mine Penokee Hills Rob Cowles Tom Tiffany

After nearly a year of maneuvering to help a Florida-based company open an iron mine in far northwestern Wisconsin, Assembly Republicans were poised Thursday to finally pass a bill that streamlines the state's complex permitting process.

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Republicans on the state Assembly's jobs committee approved a bill Tuesday that would streamline Wisconsin's iron mining permit process, brushing aside Democrats' claims that the measure is a license to pollute.

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The state Assembly is set to vote next week on a bill that pits the promise of hundreds of jobs against worries an iron ore mine would despoil a pristine area in northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior.

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Two Democratic legislators are planning to hold their own public hearing on a Republican bill that would rewrite Wisconsin's iron mining statutes.

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