This week’s topics: Air Quality, Agriculture & Food, Cleaner Cars, Electronic Waste, Energy, Global Warming, Green Building, Green Business, Legislative Priorities, Mining, Mississippi River, OHVs, Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Trails, Transportation, Wildlife
Air Quality
- Duluth News Tribune: U.S. Steel pays penalty for air pollution at Keetac
Agriculture & Food
- Minnesota Public Radio: Organic famers meet hoping to tackle their biggest challenges
Cleaner Cars
- Star Tribune: Editorial: Swanson’s right to join EPA lawsuit
Electronic Waste
- Duluth News Tribune: Manufacturers now foot part of the bill for e-waste disposal in Minnesota
Energy
- Bemidji Pioneer: Wind-turbine firm in state’s sights
(MEP member Will Steger mentioned)
- Minnesota Monitor: Peak Oil: Houston, we have a problem
- Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal: Xcel to build wind farm near Austin
- Minnesota Public Radio: Governor Pawlenty proposes a renewable energy plan
(MEP member group Institute for Local Self-Reliance mentioned)
- Minnesota Public Radio: Lawmakers try to lure world’s largest wind turbine maker
- Minnesota Public Radio: Power line technology allows for bigger loads
- Pioneer Press: Plan offers clean-energy loans
- Star Tribune: Local ownership urged for energy projects
- Star Tribune: Pawlenty announces clean energy plan
(MEP member group Institute for Local Self-Reliance mentioned)
Global Warming
- Minnesota Monitor: Climate-change impact hearings hit the road
- MinnPost: Global warming’s pressing moral question
Green Building
Green Business
- Pioneer Press: Blue: It’s the new green
Legislative Priorities
- Alexandria Echo Press: Environmental group sets legislative priorities
- Austin Daily Herald: Lawmakers hope to repeat environment success of ‘07
(MEP member group Izaak Walton League mentioned)
- Duluth News Tribune: State bonding goes green
- Rochester Post-Bulletin: Ikes, legislators set meeting to discuss conservation
(MEP member group Izaak Walton League mentioned)
Mining
- Mesabi Daily News: Area needs stronger words of support for mining projects from Sen.Klobuchar
(MEP member group Sierra Club mentioned)
- Mesabi Daily News: Klobuchar wants to see more details on major Iron Range mining projects
- Timberjay Newspapers: Protesters cite mining concerns
Mississippi River
Off-Highway Vehicles
- Bemidji Pioneer: DNR fields concerns: Proposal would mark state forest land as ‘limited’
(MEP member groups MCEA, Sierra Club, Audubon Society mentioned)
Outdoor Recreation
- Star Tribune: Dennis Anderson: Wildlife groups can’t save the world alone
(MEP member groups The Nature Conservancy and Izaak Walton League mentioned)
Parks & Trails
- Austin Daily Herald: Work begins at Lake Louise
Transportation
- Minnesota Public Radio: The battle over transportation funding
- Minnesota Public Radio: Fixing bridges not Minnesota’s only transportation problem
- Pioneer Press: Editorial: Solving problems in the here and now
- Rochester Post-Bulletin: Editorial: Gasoline tax is likely option for transportation funding
- Star Tribune: Editorial: Impasse is skewing bonding priorities
- West Central Tribune: Governor focuses on bridges in bonding bill
Wildlife
- Minnesota Public Radio: Solo the bear and her cubs moved to Michigan