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EPA investigating taconite mine for pollution that threatens wild rice
A second company, Cleveland Cliffs, has also asked for a looser sulfate standard near its United Taconite mine in Eveleth. Lentz said the agency is not considering that request now, because it is ...
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Iron Range union applauds Biden’s blocking of U.S. Steel acquisition: ‘We are going to be fine’
Cliffs owns Hibbing Taconite and United Taconite in Minnesota. The Ohio-based company has expanded from a taconite miner supplying other companies into a massive steelmaker in its own right after ...
Trump’s EPA would roll back new limits on mercury emissions that Iron Range mining interests opposed
Cleveland-Cliffs and U.S. Steel, which operate all six of Minnesota’s iron ore mines and pellet plants (Cliffs also runs the ...
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EPA to consider rolling back mercury limits on taconite plants
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration will consider rolling back newly set limits on mercury emissions from the Iron Range's taconite plants ... the history of the United States." ...
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Trump makes US copper mining a focus of his domestic minerals policy
President Donald Trump is taking a step toward granting the U.S. mining industry’s biggest wishes by singling out one metal as a focus of his domestic minerals policy: copper. From talk of acquiring ...