Minnesota's taconite mining industry is starting to emerge from a downturn, but the rebound is slow to reach the towns of Hibbing and Keewatin, where taconite plants remain on extended shut-down.
New Flyer, the bus manufacturer poised to benefit from stimulus money, will lay off more than 300 people by the end of the year after an order for 140 buses was delayed.
Construction work on the Enbridge oil pipeline that would bring crude oil from Canada to the U.S. through Minnesota will begin in the next few days, after the company building it received a permit from the U.S. State Department.
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Minnesota and other states are mobilizing to clean up the air in supposedly pristine areas like the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Voyageurs National Park.