State air quality officials held a public hearing Tuesday on a Howell recycling and scrap management company's plans for an industrial shredder. That plan is also tied up in court and has faced public ...

Controversy is brewing in Bellingham over a former cement plant, a Canadian metal recycling company, and a lot of concerned neighbors. Earlier this year, residents of northwest Bellingham learned that ...

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MUSKEGON, MI – A recycling company in Muskegon wants to install a new scrap metal shredder that would break down cars and appliances. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy ...

Holland-based metal and scrapping company PADNOS has agreed to put its controversial metal shredder indoors at its Howell site. In an agreement signed Monday, PADNOS Iron and Metal will follow city ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Adam Weitsman will pay a $400,000 fine to settle a federal lawsuit over air pollution emitted from his metal-shredding plant in Tioga County. Weitsman also has two years to install ...

Here's an export success story you don't hear very often in Philadelphia: A local business has a hot product that Chinese customers can't get enough of. The company wants to build a new plant, bring ...

A giant shredder that can gobble three cars in eight seconds will be at the core of a scrap-metal recycling facility planned for the East Bottoms industrial area of Kansas City, Missouri. Midwest ...

North Minneapolis residents are breathing easier for the first time in a decade after a metal shredder linked to years of air pollution ceased operation last week. Scrap metal and car parts are still ...

It’s two stories of blue and gold steel, a 1,500-ton behemoth of chutes that spans 6 acres. Squint and it might look like the latest attraction at Carowinds. But it was built for car-crushing carnage.