Today’s topics: Energy, Food, Great Lakes, Health, Mining, Off-Highway Vehicles, Sustainability, Transportation, Waste and Water.
Energy
- Park Rapids Enterprise: Speaker challenges global warming
- Park Rapids Enterprise: Local leaders pitch renewable energy projects
Food
- Star Tribune Opinion: Wendell Berry: Food and consequence
(MEP member group Land Stewardship Project is mentioned) - West Central Tribune: Residents’ complaints over turkey barns ‘fall on deaf ears’
Great Lakes
- Associated Press: Scientists urge saltwater flushing to kill ballast invasives
Health
- Woodbury Bulletin Opinion: The public must be able to trust its health and environmental agencies
(The author is State Rep. Julie Bunn)
Mining
- Minnesota Public Radio: Proposed Range steel plant is $30 million short
Off-Highway Vehicles
- Christian Science Monitor: Off-road vehicles rev up controversy in public lands
- Park Rapids Enterprise: DNR to present draft plans for OHV trails
Sustainability
Transportation
- Star Tribune: Northstar line’s funding prospect is encouraging
- Star Tribune: Board tables viaduct plan for University and Snelling
- Pioneer Press: County rejects Snelling tunnel
- Forum Newspapers: Commuter rail projects no sure thing
- Mesabi Daily News: Corps of Engineers having impact on county
Waste
- Alexandria Echo: A burning need?
Water
- Minnesota Public Radio Midmorning: The debate over bottled water
- Pioneer Press: Dakota County / Residents can test well water for PFCs
- AgriNews: Blue-green algae can be deadly