In Michigan, the potential for rare earths and other critical minerals offers a possible extension of mining in a region that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

DULUTH — Federal regulators and the state’s two taconite mining and processing companies have agreed on limits for a pair of pollutants causing haze in the region’s national parks and wilderness areas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...