Today’s topics: 3M Chemicals, Agriculture, Business, Development, Energy, Funding, Great Lakes, Health, Mining, Natural Areas, Non-Native Invasive Species, Transportation, Waste, Water, Wetlands and Wildlife.
3M Chemicals
- Pioneer Press: Study details extent of 3M pollution near river
- Star Tribune: 3M pollution case: Confidentiality breach is costly for plaintiff’s lawyers
Agriculture
- Minnesota Public Radio: NOAA says Dead Zone could be largest ever
(MEP member group Friends of the Minnesota Valley is quoted) - Minnesota Public Radio: Researcher predicts larger Gulf dead zone this year
- Forum Communications: Farm bill: Energy, disaster aid up in the air
- AgriNews: No-till farming works just fine for organic producers
- AgriNews: Penners think hazelnuts are ripe with potential
Business
- Star Tribune: A cooler, greener dry-cleaning machine
Development
- South Washington County Bulletin: Builder wants to help suburbanites ‘go green’
Energy
- Star Tribune Opinion: Will Steger: Concerts for the Earth struck a quite reasonable chord
(Steger’s foundation is a MEP member group) - WCCO: A Tour Of This Old ‘Green’ House
- Minnesota Public Radio: Electricity from waste
- Morris Sun Tribune: City, county chip in to support gasification project
- Park Rapids Enterprise: 120-foot wind turbine on track to go up this fall
- St. Cloud Times: Benton gives commission leeway on windmill heights
- Timberjay Newspaper: Tower may study heating potential of mine pit
Funding
- Star Tribune: Truth in lottery advertising questioned
Great Lakes
- Duluth News Tribune: ‘Water is life’
(MEP and member groups Clean Water Action Alliance, Environmental Association for Great Lakes Education, Izaak Walton League of America, Save Lake Superior Association, and Sweetwater Alliance are mentioned) - Duluth News Tribune: A day for Lake Superior
(MEP and member group Clean Water Action is quoted)
Health
- Minnesota Public Radio: Pawlenty vows to find answers to Iron Range cancer deaths
- Star Tribune: State to fund Iron Range cancer rate study
- Duluth News Tribune: Pawlenty enlists ‘U’ in broad study
- Duluth News Tribune Editorial: Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Thursday the money is there, but his words have a familiar ring to them
Mining
- Hibbing Daily Tribune: Draft environmental permits on notice
Natural Areas
- Pioneer Press: A state lake fit for a state park
(MEP member groups Parks and Trails Council of Minnesota and Trust for Public Land are quoted) - Duluth News Tribune: State park may be coming to Lake Vermilion
(MEP member groups Conservation Fund, Parks and Trails Council of Minnesota, The Nature Conservancy and Trust for Public Land are mentioned) - Minnesota Public Radio: Governor proposes new state park
(MEP member group Parks and Trails Council is quoted) - WCCO: Lake Vermilion State Park In The Works
- Star Tribune: DNR working on a new park ‘up north’
- Associated Press: Pawlenty creates new state park at Lake Vermillion
- Mesabi Daily News: State park proposed
Non-Native Invasive Species
- Star Tribune: Eden Prairie’s draining issue of pondweed and permission
- AP: Milfoil Turns Up In 6 More Minn. Lakes
Transportation
- Star Tribune: Debate grows over bridge still on the drawing board
- St. Cloud Times: Bikes replace cars in commutes
Waste
Water
- Star Tribune: Lovely but ‘impaired’
(MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is quoted) - Mankato Free Press: Area rivers polluted by pesticide
(MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is quoted) - Mankato Free Press Column: Still great passion for ‘Forgotten River’
(MEP member group Clean Up the River Environment is featured) - Star Tribune Opinion: 12 ways to save our 10,000 lakes
(MEP member group Minnesota Waters is mentioned) - Duluth News Tribune Editorial: Half-acre water garden is sweet enough
(MEP member group Sweetwater Alliance is mentioned) - Duluth News Tribune Editorial: Bayfront water garden a go, and not half (acre) bad
(MEP member group Sweetwater Alliance is quoted) - Press Publications: Volunteers wade for water bugs to improve area streams
(MEP member group Friends of the Mississippi River is quoted)
Minnesota Public Radio: Is bottled water all wet? - Albert Lea Tribune Editorial: To be green or not to be green?
- Timberjay Newspaper: Logging era left its mark on the Littlefork
Wetlands
- Star Tribune: Wetland rules mired stadium plans, Anoka County landowner says
- Duluth News Tribune: Congress to hear proposed change to restore federal protection to small wet-lands and streams
- Outdoor News: DNR scales back wetland flights
Wildlife
- Star Tribune: State ducks decline again despite continental trend
- Outdoor News: State mallard numbers jump