A Minnesota environmental nonprofit says President Donald Trump doesn’t have the authority to extend air emission rule ...

Lawsuit challenges two-year waiver from the EPA’s mercury and toxic air pollution limits that protect Great Lakes communities, and public health ...

A new federal lawsuit has been filed against the Trump administration over exemptions for the mining industry.

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 ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. WASHINGTON — The state’s Indian tribes are panning the Environmental Protection ...

DULUTH -- Cleveland-Cliffs agreed to pay a $50,000 penalty for air quality violations at its United Taconite processing facility in Forbes, where, as part of the settlement, the mining company is also ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Iron Range’s taconite industry is pushing back on new federal rules that would limit mercury emissions released by pellet plants. U.S. Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs, the two companies ...