Smith Foundry to partially shut down operations in settlement with federal regulators mprnews.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mprnews.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
During a surprise inspection in May, the EPA determined that Smith Foundry had violated the Clean Air Act. However, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has said it is not seeing any violations of state or federal air quality standards from the facility.
MPCA: We have no evidence Smith Foundry polluted Minneapolis neighborhood startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Minnesota's top pollution authority is casting doubt on the accuracy of an EPA report that found years of Clean Air Act violations at an iron foundry in South Minneapolis. Katrina Kessler, commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, said in an interview Monday that the state has no evidence that Smith Foundry sent elevated levels of lung-damaging fine particulate matter into the .