US EditionTrump order gives Minnesota taconite plants more time to cut mercury pollution
MINNESOTA, JUL 21 – The EPA’s mercury emissions rule for Minnesota taconite mines is delayed two years due to concerns over technology feasibility and costs exceeding $500 million, industry says.
- 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.
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency spokesperson Becky Lentz said the state will need additional reductions from all sources, including the taconite iron ore processing facilities.
- Kristen Vake, executive director of the Iron Mining Association of Minnesota, stated that the extension will give taconite operations more time to find solutions.
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Trump order gives Minnesota taconite plants more time to cut mercury pollution
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 that the Trump administration has already signaled it intends to roll back. A proclamation Trump signed late Thursday evening, July 17, states that the rule adopted by the EPA last March relies on “technologies that have not been demonstrated to work …
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