The Masabi Iron Range in Minnesota has been a primary source of iron ore in the U.S. for many decades.  There are large deposits of taconite ore in the region, a form of silicate rock that contains twenty to thirty percent iron.  The iron ore mines in this country have been tapped out for fifty [...]

An amendment has quietly been slipped into the Wisconsin state budget currently before the legislature that would limit the liability of companies who bought firms prior to 1972 that proved to have massive asbestos liability exposure.  The bill is designed to protect the Crown Cork & Seal Company of Philadelphia which according to the Wisconsin [...]