A chasm of mistrust between many Cottage Grove residents and the city's major employer, 3M Co., is widening as a plan to bring more materials to the state's only hazardous waste incinerator proceeds.

3M Co. has agreed to pay a $2.8 million penalty for hazardous waste violations associated with its now-shuttered incinerator in Cottage Grove. Since 1996, 3M repeatedly misidentified hazardous waste ...

COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. — Minnesota-based 3M will pay a civil penalty of more than $2.8 million and take a number of corrective steps following a state investigation into storage and disposal of ...

Thursday morning, state officials announced the findings of an investigation into one of 3M’s facilities and said the company is being fined $2.8 million. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TRINITY, Ala. – 3M is buying up land in ...

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COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. (WCCO)-- Pollution regulators in Minnesota say one of the state's largest companies mismanaged hazardous waste in multiple instances over a span of more than two decades. Kirk ...