Today’s Topics: Agriculture and Food; Air Quality; Boundary Waters Cell Tower; Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment; Conservation; Elections; Energy; Fish and Wildlife; Invasive Species; Mining; Pollution and Toxins; Recycling and Waste Reduction; Sustainability; Transportation; WaterAgriculture and Food
Finance and Commerce: Sustainable: Farm of the future may be indoors
MinnPost: Meador: As climate changes, organic methods look like a path to adaptive agriculture
Air Quality
Pioneer Press: Cleaner air may come at a price as EPA considers more strict pollution restrictions
(MEP member groups Environmental Initiative and Fresh Energy mentioned)
Boundary Waters Cell Tower
Star Tribune: Professors: Court erred on BWCA cell tower
(MEP member group Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness mentioned)
Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment
Park Rapids Enterprise: Letter: Progress made on Legacy funding
Climate Change
Duluth News Tribune: Report: More warmth, more heavy rain
(MEP member group Environment Minnesota mentioned)
Conservation
Minnesota 2020: VIDEO: Policy Attacks on BWCA
(MEP member group Environment Minnesota mentioned)
MPR: Prairie preservation plan proposed
(MEP member group The Nature Conservancy mentioned)
Pioneer Press: Congressional bills threaten public lands in northern Minnesota, environmental groups say
(MEP member group Environment Minnesota mentioned)
Pioneer Press: Minnesota’s prairies get a much-needed guardian angel
(MEP member groups the Nature Conservancy and Audubon Minnesota mentioned)
Elections
Politics in Minnesota: 6B House primary may turn on mining, jobs
Energy
Duluth News Tribune: Feds say no more money for Iron Range Excelsior power plan
(MEP member group Sierra Club mentioned)
Minnesota 2020: Energy Efficiency through Timing
Minnesota Daily: Garbage-burning controversy remains at a standstill
Republican Eagle: Letter: Perception deceptions rampant in wind industry
Star Tribune: Xcel Energy and the future of coal
Fish and Wildlife
Duluth News Tribune: Minnesota DNR commissioner shares his thoughts on state’s first wolf hunt
Invasive Species
MPR: For DNR invasive species inspectors, an uphill battle
Pioneer Press: Dave Orrick: When does crackdown on invasive species go too far?
Mining
Duluth News Tribune: Letter: Nolan’s mining research plan demonstrates leadership
Duluth Reader: Commentary: PolyMet, Twin Metals, and Credibility Deficit
Jordan Independent: Public meeting Thursday on frac sand mine
Minnesota 2020: With New Mining, The Choice is Ours
(MEP member groups Conservation Minnesota, Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy mentioned)
Republican Eagle: Letter: County should demand full environmental review
Republican Eagle: Letter: Silica mining requires special category
Timberjay: Commentary: A poor country can say no. Why can’t we?
WCCO: Battle For Underground Minerals Brews Among Homeowners
Pollution and Toxins
AP: Court: Pesticide drift isn’t trespassing
Recycling and Waste Reduction
Mankato Free Press: State agency may have compost plan jump more hurdles
Minnesota 2020: VIDEO: Environmental Stewardship in an Alley Near You
(MEP member group Eureka Recycling mentioned)
Pioneer Press: St. Paul: Eureka Recycling scrambles as city steps back on composting plan
(MEP member group Eureka Recycling mentioned)
Sustainability
Business North: A perpetual motion green machine
Minnesota 2020: Free Market Sustainability: Environmentally Sustainable?
Transportation
Finance and Commerce: Big plans emerge as rail expands in east metro
MPR: MTA cutting train fare by $1 this week
Pioneer Press: Joe Soucheray: Local businesses are in the way of prettier bike rides
(MEP member group Transit for Livable Communities mentioned)
Pioneer Press: Metro Transit to cut fares on Northstar line to boost rail ridership
Star Tribune: Sea of parking lots drowns downtown Mpls.
Stillwater Gazette: Commentary: Why high-speed rail is good for Minnesota
Water
New Ulm Journal: Conservation drainage explained
