Minnesota Reformer, April 23, 2025: MN Senate energy bill could dial back landmark climate policies
“The Minnesota Senate advanced a DFL-sponsored bill earlier this month that would sunset the state’s pathbreaking community solar program in 2028 and significantly reduce the financial benefits of onsite solar for utility customers in small towns, rural areas and exurban communities across the state.” >>Read More.
Sahan Journal, July 25, 2024: Does carbon-free mean carbon-neutral? Activists, industry fight over details in new Minnesota energy law
“Environmental justice advocates are pushing back on proposals to include trash incinerators and wood biomass plants as carbon-free energy sources under a new state law that aims to make Minnesota power 100% carbon-free by 2040.” >>Read More.
Minnesota Reformer, June 10, 2024: Environmental groups call for hearings over MPCA issues
“A coalition of environmental groups is calling for legislative hearings over the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s failure to detect and curb pollution in several instances in recent years.” >>Read More.
MinnPost, May 30, 2024
“Helen Davis had no idea her son Frederick had dangerously high levels of lead in his blood when health care workers, accompanied by police, showed up at her doorstep to rush the two-year-old to a hospital.” >>Read More.
Star Tribune, September 2, 2023: Little action so far on plan to enlist farmers to clean up polluted groundwater in Minnesota
“In 20 communities around Minnesota, the drinking water supply is so contaminated with toxic nitrate from farm pollution that the state has the obligation to change the way farmers fertilize their fields.” >>Read More.
MinnPost, August 31, 2023: Applying lessons from Puerto Rico’s climate challenges to Minnesota
“A group of Minnesotans composed of environmental and social advocates and some elected officials recently traveled to Puerto Rico with the hopes of learning different ways to support communities going through the effects of climate change.” >>Read More.
Indian Country Today, May 9, 2022: Enbridge takes the gloves off in Line 5 battle
“Enbridge is getting personal with the Bad River Ojibwe tribe over the company’s Line 5 pipeline route through tribal lands in Wisconsin.” >>Read More.
Star Tribune, March 21, 2022: Enbridge crews punctured three aquifers during Line 3 oil pipeline construction, DNR says
“Damage to Minnesota’s public groundwater resources from construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline is more severe than previously known, state environmental regulators disclosed Monday.” >>Read More.
Star Tribune, January 20, 2021: Enbridge says it has fixed aquifer ruptured while building Line 3 oil pipeline in Minnesota
“One year after construction triggered a flood of spilled artesian groundwater, Enbridge Energy says it has pumped enough grout into the ground to seal the aquifer that crews punctured in northern Minnesota while building the Line 3 oil pipeline.” >>Read More.
Duluth News Tribune, November 20, 2021
(Op-ed by MEP’s Andrew Slade) “Babies on the North Shore had mercury in their blood. Too much mercury. In late 2011, the Minnesota Department of Health released a study about levels of mercury in the blood of infants born in the Lake Superior watershed.” >>Read More.
Bemidji Pioneer, September 24, 2021: Minnesota Environmental Partnership discusses issues with Line 3
” The Minnesota Environmental Partnership criticized state agencies Thursday in a Zoom call regarding action taken on the Line 3 replacement project.” >>Read More.
MinnPost, July 9, 2021: Line 3 and the canceled Keystone XL: How similar are they?
“Opponents of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline in Minnesota have pressured President Joe Biden to stop construction on the project, saying he should treat Line 3 just like the Keystone XL pipeline he canceled.” >>Read More.
Minnesota Reformer, July 6, 2021: Pollution control commissioner resigns ahead of confirmation vote in Minnesota Senate
“Minnesota’s top pollution regulator resigned her post on Tuesday, preempting a Senate confirmation vote on her nomination after Republicans signaled they would fire her over differences in environmental policies.” >>Read More.
Star Tribune, June 22, 2021: ‘Clean cars’ rule and environmental funding move forward
“After a prolonged standoff that threatened to shut down Minnesota’s parks before a holiday weekend, Senate Republicans have dropped demands that the Walz administration stop the new clean cars emissions standards.” >>Read More.