Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership The NorthMet copper-nickel mining project (formerly PolyMet) proposed near Babbitt and Hoyt Lakes hasn’t exactly met with success in the past few years. NorthMet’s state… Read more »
Posts Tagged: climate change
Major climate lawsuit to stay in Minnesota court
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Last week, the United States Supreme Court declared that the State of Minnesota’s lawsuit against several oil giants for deception on climate change would stay… Read more »
Minnesota weather is getting weirder
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Most people in Minnesota have heard the famous phrase about our weather patterns. “We have two seasons, winter and road construction.” It’s not literally true,… Read more »
Minnesota Takes Two Steps Backward on Energy Policy
The Minnesota Environmental Partnership is proud to feature the following post as part of a series of columns as part of a Student Voices Series issues. This is part of a continuing… Read more »
Crop Insurance: Good Enough for Monsanto-Good Enough for Sustainable Ag
From the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction department: In 2007, Monsanto talked the USDA’s Risk Management Agency into giving farmers a discount on crop insurance premiums if they planted the company’s triple-stacked GMO corn…. Read more »
A Graphic View of Diversity’s Power
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a good infographic can be the equivalent of thousands of pounds of soil. That thought occurred to me recently while viewing… Read more »
Climate, Clean Water, and Clean Energy
Minnesota is on a clean energy path that is bringing benefits to human health and our water, air, and natural resources. Minnesotans are seeing the evidence of changing climate trends… Read more »
Minnesota’s Climate Solutions
This is a public forum with Fresh Energy’s J. Drake Hamilton and Minnesota Conservation Federation’s Gary Botzek Minnesota is on a clean energy path, creating thousands of jobs while… Read more »
Climate Justice Now — It’s Our Time to Act
Join the conversation to hear from climate leaders about how combating climate change is a pathway to achieving a vision for families in the Twin Cities rooted in economic prosperity… Read more »
Cover Crops: Insuring Against Disaster
Thanks to the recently passed 2014 Farm Bill, federally subsidized crop insurance is an even bigger player in determining what the landscape looks like. That’s troubling, considering that in recent… Read more »