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Newly released documents detail EPA's concerns over PolyMet
Staff scientists at the EPA had serious concerns last year that the PolyMet copper-nickel mine might not be able to meet state and federal water quality standards under the Clean Water Act, according to documents released Thursday.
Prosecutors drop Flint water charges, promise fresh probe
Prosecutors dropped all criminal charges Thursday against eight people in the Flint water crisis and pledged to start from scratch the investigation into one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in U.S. history.
On record-high lakes, cabin owners' dreams underwater
Most of the Minnesota rivers that flooded this spring have returned to more normal levels. But some lakes around the state remain historically high, causing property damage, eroding shorelines and frustrating lake property owners.
On this island off Duluth, a race to save a threatened bird
For decades, in the middle of an island teeming with gulls, scientists and wildlife managers have worked to preserve another bird -- the common tern -- whose habitat humans have nearly destroyed.