The Natural Resource Defense Council, Inc. and Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (collectively, “NRDC”) filed a February 2nd Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) ...

EPA’s regulations set first-ever mercury emissions limits on the mills that process low-grade iron ore known as taconite. A federal appellate court has rebuffed two steelmakers’ bids to freeze ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration will consider rolling back newly set limits on mercury emissions from the Iron Range's taconite plants. The mercury limits, finalized a year ago under the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The state’s Indian tribes are panning the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to impose tougher restrictions on mercury emissions from taconite operations, saying they would fail ...

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 ...

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 But several key permits have been revoked or are on hold.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 ...