Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Five days left to make a difference for the BWCA: The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is currently accepting public comments on regulations that will play a… Read more »
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Infrastructure bill delivers on key environmental priorities
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Monday, President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, bipartisan (IIJA) legislation that will invest more than $1.2 trillion in the engineered… Read more »
List of impaired waters keeps growing in Minnesota
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Earlier this week, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency added more than 300 stretches of water to Minnesota’s impaired waters list. Each lake, stream, or river included… Read more »
Winter camelina shows promise to restore farmland, fight climate change
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Earlier this fall, a number of farmers in Minnesota and other Upper Midwest states began introducing a new seed to their fields on 1000 acres… Read more »
All eyes on world leaders as climate summit begins
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 »
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 »