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PolyMet, the Minnesota hard rock mine closest to becoming reality, said Wednesday it will create a 50-50 joint venture with Teck American, ... zinc and coal for power plants and steelmaking.

The developers of a long-delayed copper-nickel mining project in northeastern Minnesota have announced plans for a series of studies over the next year on potential ways to improve environmental ...

The long-planned PolyMet mine near Babbitt will now be known as NewRange Copper Nickel, the name of the 50-50 joint venture. Combined, the joint venture's mineral resources are more than quadruple ...

The sale of North Dakota’s largest coal-fired power plant cleared a final procedural hurdle on Thursday when Minnesota utility regulators approved a permit transfer for the facility’s attached ...

Twin Metals Minnesota has proposed a large underground mine near Ely, but that project is also on hold because of a 20-year ban on such mining in the Rainy River watershed imposed by President Joe ...

The solar farm is being built on the site of the Sherburne County Generating Station , Minnesota’s largest coal-fired power plant. Xcel Energy plans to retire all three of Sherco’s coal units ...

Sherco has been Minnesota’s largest coal-fired power plant — and its biggest polluter — since it was built over the course of the 1970s and 80s.

Since Oct. 2, 2021, the power company reported 11 smaller incidents to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, including hundreds of gallons of coal ash, which is the hazardous byproduct from ...

The developers of a long-delayed copper-nickel mining project in northeastern Minnesota announced Wednesday that they plan to conduct a series of studies over the next year on potential ways to ...