Cleveland-Cliffs settles with EPA on old air pollution violations

Iron ore miner Cleveland-Cliffs has reached a settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding what a spokesperson has confirmed to MM are old and ‘long-resolved’ alleged violations of air quality standards at its United taconite facility in Minnesota

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Cliffs' United Taconite processing facility in Forbes, Minnesota, US

The US$50,000 in fines were reportedly from 13 separate occasions where the Cliffs processing plant "caused or allowed emissions of particulate matter from one or both of its indurating furnaces to