Caption: Recycling could mean fixing the electronics or breaking it down into small components. Photo credit: Photo taken by Monika Hubka at Repowered. Guest Insider: Kathleen Doran-Norton, League of Women… Read more »
Posts By: Minnesota Environmental Partnership
Time for Action on Nitrate Pollution in our Groundwater
By Bobby King, Policy and Organizing Program Director, Land Stewardship Project The Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB) is holding a public meeting in Red Wing at the St. James Hotel on Monday,… Read more »
MEP and members urge consideration on key priorities and concerns at legislature
Minnesota Environmental Partnership and our member groups delivered the following letter to Omnibus Supplemental Appropriations Bill Conferees calling their attention to the priorities and concerns of the environmental and conservation community of Minnesota…. Read more »
Spotlight on Session: Legislative Updates 4/8/2016
It’s a rapid fire legislative session. Bills move fast. There’s a lot to pack in during a session only 11 weeks long. Today was an important deadline – from here… Read more »
Statement for the Senate Environment and Energy Policy Committee: Reinstatement of MPCA Citizens’ Board
On March 10, 2016, League of Women Voters member Kathleen Doran-Norton delivered the below prepared testimony regarding the reinstatement of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Citizens’ Board. In her testimony, she emphasizes the importance… Read more »
MEP Presents at the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Conference
On October 2nd, MEP Executive Director Steve Morse, along with Professor David Mulla of the University of Minnesota and Shawn Schottler of the Science Museum of Minnesota, gave a presentation… Read more »
St. Louis County Residents Rallied Before the County Board for the Endangered St. Louis River
Duluth, Minn. (Sept. 22, 2015) — Chanting “protect, don’t pollute,” over 60 residents of St. Louis County asked their county commissioners to recognize that the St. Louis River has been… Read more »
Governor Dayton meets with MEP member groups
Written by MEP Communications Intern Hanna Terwilliger MEP’s Annual Members Meeting was a little more crowded than usual this year as we welcomed Governor Mark Dayton to discuss Minnesota’s environmental… Read more »
Kalamazoo oil spill: How Enbridge wins while the climate loses
Written by MEP’s Andrew Slade – It’s been five years since an Enbridge pipeline burst open in Marshall, Michigan and spilled nearly a million gallons of tar sands crude oil into… Read more »
Buffers benefit everyone
By Minnesota Environmental Partnership’s Lindsey Wilson – Last week I read an article in the Star Tribune entitled “In farm country, tainted water is ‘just the way it is’” (July… Read more »