Today’s topics: Agriculture, Bonding, Development, Energy, Food, Natural Areas, Transportation, Waste and Water.
Agriculture
- Austin Daily Herald: FBI may join feedlot investigation
Bonding
- Mankato Free Press: State senators: Requests outpace funding
Development
- Austin Daily Herald: Soil clean-up project can move forward
Energy
- Fargo Forum Opinion: Planned ethanol plant a threat to environment and way of life
- Morris Sun Tribune: Potential biomass suppliers for UMM burner encouraged to attend Sept. 25 meetings
- New Ulm Journal: Capx2020 project could affect area farmers
- Winona Daily News: Eyota ethanol venture gets federal grant
- Press Publications Column: ANWR: About people, not just land
Food
- Winona Daily News Opinion: Celebrate putting ‘local’ into our food
(The author is with MEP member group Land Stewardship Project) - Red Wing Republican Eagle: Eat Local Challenge is designed to educate people about food
Natural Areas
- International Falls Daily Journal: DVNP plan gets support
(MEP member group Voyageurs National Park Association is quoted) - International Falls Daily Journal: Putting it on the map
Transportation
- Minnesota Public Radio: Traffic congestion keeps getting worse
- Annandale Advocate Opinion: State gas tax goes to roads
(The author is State Senator Dille)
Waste
- Fergus Falls Daily Journal Editorial: Recycling loss hurts environment
Water
- Star Tribune: ‘It is amazing how much we don’t know’ about our water sources; House panel aims to fill in the blanks
- Star Tribune: Agreement reached on draining Anderson Lakes
- Duluth News Tribune: Rain triggers sewage overflows in Duluth
- Fergus Falls Daily Journal: Underwood active with projects
- Park Rapids Enterprise: MPCA to reissue wastewater treatment permit
- Winona Daily News: MPCA adds more waterways, lakes to impaired waters list
- South Washington County Bulletin: Grey Cloud wells to be tested