Alex Lawton knows the iron casting company that bears his name isn’t always favored by the neighborhood residents who live near his seven metal plants, which stretch from Minnesota to Wisconsin, ...

Collector stories, festivals, and a record-breaking skillet draw fans to Lodge’s hometown.

An iron foundry in St. Paul now has 30 days to remediate lead and air violations after new data showed the foundry is continuing to pollute the air. This week, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A metal foundry on St. Paul’s East Side at loggerheads with state regulators over air quality emissions has filed its second ...

A St. Paul iron foundry that’s fighting in court over its air emissions faces a new accusation: that it’s polluting nearby homes with lead-tainted soot. The revelation, laid out in court documents ...

At legal loggerheads with state regulators, operators of the Northern Iron & Machine foundry in St. Paul pulled out of a public meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening with representatives of the ...

The metal foundry Northern Iron, pictured on Dec. 1, was fined $41,500 for failing to properly report changes to its pollution mitigation equipment.

Iron foundries have been part of the North American business landscape since the 17th century, and by the early 19th century, cast iron pipes were being produced in the northeastern United States. By ...

A judge has blocked the state from limiting operating hours and imposing other restrictions intended to reduce air pollution from a St. Paul iron foundry. Earlier this year, the Minnesota Pollution ...

OSHA has cited Frazer & Jones LLC — an iron foundry operating in Syracuse, New York, for over 150 years — with 27 safety violations and $990,186 in proposed fines. According to a recent release, this ...