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3M settles with EPA over alleged clean-air violations

Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal - by Carissa Wyant Staff Writer

3M Co. will pay $30,000 to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over alleged clean-air violations at its facility in Cottage Grove.

The EPA had alleged that Maplewood-based 3M (NYSE: MMM) violated monitoring and record-keeping requirements for systems to control particulate matter emissions from its calciners and dryers.

The agency said in a release that inhaling high concentrations of particulates can most affect children, the elderly and people with heart and lung diseases.

The matter was discovered in 2006 during an EPA inspection of the company's Abrasive Systems Division in Cottage Grove. The agency added that 3M has since demonstrated compliance.


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