Water
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When a picture is worth more than 1,000 words
by Lynne Bly, Transportation Policy Director, Fresh Energy Don’t you sometimes have the sense that if only the folks we policy wonk types are trying to persuade about the consequences of global…
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Is your favorite lake polluted?
Conservation Minnesota’s new website Check My Lake continues to shine a light on the state of Minnesota’s water quality.
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Living on the Edge
Groundwater—that stuff that trickles through sand, gravel and cracks beneath our feet, that provides 70 percent of the drinking water in this state but is often out-shined by all those beautiful lakes…
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Atrazine Expert on MPR’s Midmorning Oct. 10
Tyrone Hayes, the Berkeley researcher whose atrazine research made him persona non grata at an MPCA meeting a few years ago, will be on Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorning program (91.1 FM in…
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Manure Down the Rat Hole
I was talking to a hydrologist the other day when he mentioned he was investigating the development of a sinkhole adjacent to a large dairy manure lagoon in Winona County. Southeast Minnesota’s…
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Making EQIP Live up to its Name
It would be a wise for members of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee to keep farmers like Brad and Leslea Hodgson in mind as they hammer out the final version of the…
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CURE Big Stone II video
Clean Up the River Environment has a new clip up on mercury and the proposed Big Stone II coal plant just across the border. [youtube c-8GS2lVrjc nolink] You can learn more at…
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New resource on PFCs
Clean Water Fund has a new webpage up with information on contamination from the 3M chemicals collectively grouped as PFCs that are polluting Minnesota’s lakes and rivers. Check out their press release as well.
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Great Lakes Compact update
The efforts to create fair and consistent rules for responsible Great Lakes water use has continued on since Minnesota ratified the Great Lakes Compact in February. Here's a quick status update from the other seven Great Lakes states:
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What Lawmakers (& We) Missed on March 23
I spent a few hours last week with Paul Wotzka, the former Minnesota Pollution Control Agency hydrologist who has recently filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit against the agency. As we sat in…