Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership During this week, the members of the G20 – an organization of 19 of the world’s wealthiest countries and the European Union – have been… Read more »
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Biden Administration move could save Boundary Waters from sulfide mining
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Wednesday, October 20, the Biden Administration announced that it would resume federal efforts to seek a 20-year ban on sulfide mining on federal lands… Read more »
Regenerative crops are rapidly becoming a reality
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Minnesota is home to the 5th-largest agricultural sector in the nation. About half of the state’s farming income comes from crop agriculture, of which corn… Read more »
Oil companies: a broken record of broken promises
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Over the last weeks, two events in the oil industry, along with the ongoing story of Enbridge’s harms to Minnesota during Line 3 construction, demonstrated… Read more »
Poll shows Minnesotans oppose PolyMet practices
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership New polling of Minnesotans released on Tuesday shows that while Minnesotans aren’t settled one way or another about the PolyMet copper-nickel sulfide mine project near… Read more »
Scientists, Indigenous organizers shed light on Line 3’s recent harms to water
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Thursday, MEP sponsored an online presentation, “Understanding the Line 3 Aquifer Breach and Spills,” in which geologists and Indigenous pipeline resisters shared information on… Read more »
Biden Administration report points to a new dawn for solar
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Last week, the Biden Administration published a Department of Energy report that offered a course for building up solar power in the U.S. more than tenfold, helping… Read more »
Two wins for water as rollbacks are reversed
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership This week, two federal decisions dealt victories to clean water, one at the national level, and one in Minnesota. On Monday, an Arizona District Court… Read more »
Standing against Line 3 in the face of a lockdown
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership In a departure from our usual MEP voice, this article is an opinion piece that has been written from the author’s personal perspective. I’ve been… Read more »
MEP joins call for state to Move On from PolyMet
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership This week, MEP joined a dozen organizations and more than one thousand individuals in signing on to the Move On from PolyMet campaign, an effort… Read more »