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People Not Polluters on Monday called out Gov. Tim Walz and his agencies for what it termed “polluter capture,” a phrase that asserts that industry and agriculture hold too much

In recent cases like Smith Foundry and Water Gremlin, regulators said they lacked authority to take more decisive action.

A foundry in Minneapolis accused of violating federal air standards will shut down its melting and casting operations as a result of a settlement with the EPA.

EPA News Release: EPA Announces Settlement with Smith Foundry to Cease Furnace and Casting Operations within 12 Months and Pay $80,000

Mental health administrator Anquam Mahamoud is running for Minnesota House in District 62B, serving south Minneapolis.

Alarmed by new air quality data, state officials this week gave the foundry 30 days to comply.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Smith Foundry $15,300 for failing to protect workers from breathing hazards.

St. Paul Brass and Aluminum, a foundry in St.Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood, is under investigation for Clean Air Act violations.

There’s an urgency in affected communities to get polluting facilities like the HERC out of their neighborhoods.

The massive 20-year cleanup of a toxic legacy in south Minneapolis has now eliminated arsenic contamination for all but one residential yard, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday. The EPA's Superfund program dug up and trucked away the contaminated soil from the yards of 623 homes that had been poisoned by an old pesticide maker. The South Minneapolis Residential Soil ...