Today’s topics: Energy, Food, Forests, Great Lakes, Transportation, Waste and Water.
Energy
- Star Tribune: Coal plant suffers setback
(MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is quoted) - Star Tribune Opinion: Ellen Anderson: Coal plant is a step in wrong direction
- Star Tribune: Hybrid sales revving up in Minnesota
- Mankato Free Press Editorial: Ethanol debate needs airing
Food
- Mankato Free Press: Sisters grow organic at Earthrise Farm
Forests
- International Falls Daily Journal: Forestry and bioeconomy conference offered
Great Lakes
- Duluth News Tribune: Lawsuits, legislation aim to regulate ships’ ballast water
- Star Tribune: Isle Royale order aims to protect fish, lake from virus
Transportation
- Star Tribune: St. Croix pollution built up over decades
(MEP member group Sierra Club North Star Chapter is quoted) - West Central Tribune: Members of House Transportation Finance Committee are urged to pass a transportation bill with a gas tax increase
Waste
- Brainerd Dispatch Opinion: How about some green hotels?
(The author is with MEP member group White Earth Land Recovery Project) - Delano Eagle: How does a pizza box get to be part of a road project?; Delano’s Randy’s Sanitation plays role in organics recycling
- Delano Eagle: New product for ‘green construction’ to be manufactured in Delano facility
Water
- Star Tribune: A toxic well, a life changed
- Rochester Post Bulletin: Some Minnesota streams getting cleaner
- Minnesota Daily Editorial: The land of 10,000 polluted lakes