The rule would require the six taconite processing plants located in northeastern Minnesota to cut their emissions by 57% by the end of 2026 The Northshore Mining plant in Silver Bay, Minnesota, is ...

The rule is expected to cut about 33 percent of the neurotoxin each year, thereby reducing deposits on Midwest lands and waters. EPA has finalized the nation’s first-ever limits on emissions of ...

Northern Minnesota’s largest consumers of electricity, the 24/7/365-running taconite processing plants and paper mills, can apply for significant electric cost reductions this summer under legislation ...

One employee died this afternoon as a result of an explosion and fire at the United Taconite processing plant in Forbes, about five miles southwest of Eveleth. The United Taconite worker was working ...

WASHINGTON — After decades of advocacy by tribal nations, states and conservation groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is updating requirements for one of the largest sources of ...

Taconite plants, the largest industrial source of mercury pollution in Minnesota, have vented the toxic metal for years into the air without enforced limits. Those days are likely coming to an end.

NewRange is clearing out the quarter-mile-long concentrator building, which it hopes to use as a processing plant for a copper-nickel mine. But several key permits have been revoked or are on hold. A ...

Taconite industry workers in the Iron Range have an increased risk of contracting rare lung cancer mesothelioma, according to a University news release. The $4.9 million Minnesota Taconite Workers ...

DULUTH — President Donald Trump is giving Minnesota’s taconite iron ore mines two more years to comply with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mandate to reduce their mercury emissions — a rule ...

Northern Minnesota’s lake-strewn hills are Paul Bunyan country. Their open-pit iron mines were originally scooped, as all followers of legend know, to provide suitable shoes for Babe, Bunyan’s Big ...

Beneath the forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula lie vast iron deposits that have long resisted ore-hungry steelmen. The ore is jasper, a diamond-hard rock that blunts ordinary drills, is too low in ...