Monthly Archives:: June 2017

    Celebrating and Protecting Minnesota’s Waters Many of us in Minnesota will spend time this weekend and this Independence Day enjoying all that Minnesota’s lakes and rivers have to offer… Read more »

    Summer hearings have high stakes for Minnesota waters The Legislature won’t reconvene until early next year, but the government hearings being held throughout this summer will have a… Read more »

    Minnesota water quality meetings to begin as lakes and rivers under threat In Feburary 2017, Governor Mark Dayton announced Minnesota’s 25 by 25 Water Quality Goal, a project that aims… Read more »

    Pipeline Backers Feel Public Pushback On Tuesday, June 6, the Minnesota Department of Commerce held the first of a series of public comment meetings on a Draft Environmental… Read more »

                                    Rollbacks and Raids at State and Federal Levels On Monday, May 29, Governor Dayton… Read more »

New Round of Backward Bills Heads to Governor’s Desk In the early hours of Friday, May 26, leaders at the Minnesota Legislature announced that it was concluding a long and… Read more »

The End (of the session) Is Nigh The Minnesota Legislature concludes its final full week of the regular session this week, with House and Senate leaders seemingly still far away… Read more »

Governor Vetoes Budget Bills On Thursday, May 11, Governor Dayton announced that he intended to veto every budget bill the Legislature has passed – and some they have yet to pass –… Read more »

Stepping Up for Our Great Outdoors There’s a lot at stake for Minnesota’s land, air, and water this month, as our state’s Legislature enters the final days of its 2017… Read more »

Minnesota’s Transit Future at Stake During the 2017 session, the Minnesota Legislature has shown a troubling willingness to cut funding to programs that boost Minnesota’s air, water, and land, despite a… Read more »

photo credit: Save the BWCA Minnesotans Rally to Protect Our Water Wednesday, April 19 was Water Action Day at the State Capitol, and more than one thousand people joined together… Read more »

Join Us On April 19th! Water Action Day is only a few days away, and it’s not too late to get involved! This is an opportunity to not only to… Read more »

Telling Lawmakers: Stop Steamrolling Our Environment At a time when the harmful effects of climate change and water pollution are beginning to mount up worldwide, the Minnesota Legislature has sadly… Read more »

Coalition Calls on Legislature to Reject Dangerous Environmental Budget Bills On Wednesday, March 29, the Minnesota Environmental Partnership and more than twenty allied organizations issued a letter to Minnesota Senators voicing strong… Read more »

Governor Dayton Vetoes Anti-Solar Bill On Monday night, Governor Dayton followed through on a promise made last month when used his veto pen on a bill that would have weakened… Read more »

photo credit: Minnesota environmental Quality Board Legislators Target Environmental Quality Board The Minnesota Environmental Quality Board is an important avenue for citizens and agencies to conduct fair and complete environmental reviews… Read more »

Environmental Rollbacks are Out of Step with What Minnesotans Want At the same time when Minnesota Legislators are debating a torrent of rollbacks a new poll shows that Minnesotans of… Read more »

Photo Credit: Michael Hicks, FlickrCC Environmental Groups Brace as Pruitt Takes Helm of EPA Despite numerous unanswered questions about potential conflicts of interest, Scott Pruitt was confirmed as the head of… Read more »

Photo Credit: Tundra Ice, Flickr CC Governor Dayton Sets Goal to Cut Water Pollution by 25 percent by 2025 At the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board’s annual conference in St. Paul, Governor Dayton… Read more »

Photo Credit: Michael Hicks, FlickrCC Amid National News, Minnesota Legislature Takes Aim at Clean Energy Policy The news has been dominated by of a flurry of presidential executive orders, nominations, and… Read more »

Photo Credit: Michael Hicks, FlickrCC Governor Dayton Delivers State of the State Address This week at the State of the State Address, Governor Dayton released his budget proposal for the next two… Read more »

Photo Credit: Bart Rousseau, Flickr CC Buffer law debated at the Capitol on Thursday State House environment and agriculture committees met on Thursday to discuss a law that requires plant buffers… Read more »

Photo Credit: MoxyJane@Spiral Bound Images, Flickr CC Dayton’s Bonding Package Includes Water Investments Minnesota’s lakes, rivers, and streams don’t just take care of themselves. Strong capital investments in our Great Outdoors… Read more »

  Photo Credit: Jim Brekke, Flickr CC As the Legislative session begins, MEP members stand together around shared priorities As the 2017 Minnesota Legislature convenes, our lawmakers will consider many opportunities… Read more »