The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) held a special Citizens’ Board Meeting on Tuesday, March 27, to decide their plan to address haze pollution in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Voyageurs National Park, and Is…
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Anti-Local Control Bill Fails in Senate; Now Let Lawmakers Know it Should be a Dead Issue
By Bobby King, Land Stewardship Project Last week the bill weakening local control, Senate File 270, came up on the Senate floor, met with strong opposition, and failed to pass…. Read more »
Omnibus Environmental Policy Bill contains too many bad provisions
By Steve Morse, Executive Director Our coalition is disappointed today that the Minnesota House passed the Omnibus Environmental Bill (H.F. 2164) without addressing the some serious problems identified by our… Read more »
Solar bonding saves the public money
Energy issues have not received as much attention as the Vikings Stadium or the constitutional amendments this session, but there have been attempts at rollbacks to our Renewable Energy Standard. … Read more »
Clean your boats: Minnesotans get it, why doesn’t the EPA?
“Pick It or Ticket.” That’s a tortured line of poetry, but it sums up the message the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is sending to Minnesota boaters. When you trailer… Read more »
The Fight for Local Control Goes Local; Anti-Local Control Bill Passes off MN House Floor
By Bobby King, Land Stewardship Project Some lawmakers in St. Paul are turning a deaf ear to an important fact: local control is a key tool for Minnesota cities, townships… Read more »
Welcome to our new website! We appreciate your patience as we continue making fixes
We are so pleased to reveal the new www.MEPartnership.org, completed during The Nerdery’s Overnight Website Challenge by a group of talented web professionals — Team Redundancy Team, as they call themselves. They delivered this… Read more »
Capitol Update: Bill that weakens permit process approaches final stages
By Eric Bergstrom, Campaign Coordinator House File 2095 (Fabian) was debated on the House floor on March 22, and passed on a vote of 79-49. This permitting bill means more… Read more »
Speak up now against bad bills
Urgent action is needed to stop the House omnibus environmental bill from passing! The bill rolls back water and air protections and short-changes citizen voices in decisions about pollution in… Read more »
It’s Mostly Good News for Mpls. Urban Ag, But…
By Anna Cioffi, Land Stewardship Project Overall, the results of yesterday’s Minneapolis Zoning and Planning Committee hearing were good news for urban agriculture in the city. That’s especially true considering… Read more »