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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency will propose the first-ever limits on mercury emissions from the state’s taconite processing plants, a result of nearly 20 years of legal battles over ...

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 ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Federal regulators have issued final regulations aimed at reducing pollution from taconite processing plants that causes haze over northern Minnesota’s wild areas including ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOYT LAKES, Minn. -- Kim Snell reached down and picked up a chunk of taconite rock, a little bigger than a softball, speckled with flakes of silica that glistened like tiny diamonds in the mid-day sun ...

A Minnesotan, Connell instantly thought of Silver Bay and its black sand beach. He wrote to Curious Minnesota, the Strib’s reader-powered reporting project, to ask: “Does stamp sand pollution exist in ...