This is a sign-on letter sent from the MEP Mining Cluster to representatives of responsible government agencies regarding the the PolyMet FEIS. PolyMet FEIS meeting request December 22, 2014Mr. Thomas… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: December 2014
Crop Insurance: Good Enough for Monsanto-Good Enough for Sustainable Ag
From the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction department: In 2007, Monsanto talked the USDA’s Risk Management Agency into giving farmers a discount on crop insurance premiums if they planted the company’s triple-stacked GMO corn…. Read more »
WSF Joins Invitation Only White-House Kick-off on Climate Education and Literacy
Will Steger Foundation Executive Director Nicole Rom joined The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) for a Climate Education and Literacy Roundtable on December 3rd, 2014, as… Read more »
We Need Stronger Bicycle and Pedestrian Laws – Not Weaker Ones!
There has been much heated discussion of street design and laws related to pedestrians and non-motorized traffic in the wake of a recent vehicle-pedestrian crash in Saint Paul that severely… Read more »
MEP signs on to oppose oil transportation in the Great Lakes
The Minnesota Environmental Partnership, along with 29 other organizations from across the Great Lakes region, signed on to a December 1, 2014 letter to the Great Lakes Commission raising serious… Read more »
Sign-on letter for Draft Report of Crude Oil in the Great Lakes Region
Sign-on letter for Draft Report on Transport of Crude oil in the Great Lakes Region