Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Monday, September 28, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and its counterpart in Michigan filed a legal petition calling for the Environmental Protection Agency… Read more »
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Climate crisis: here. Time for action: immediately.
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership The Walz Administration declared the past week Climate Week in Minnesota, raising awareness of this paramount issue and showcasing the state’s efforts to advance a… Read more »
Early voting has begun in Minnesota!
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Yesterday, September 18 marked the official start of voting in the 2020 General Election in Minnesota. “Election Day” as we’ve traditionally known it will be… Read more »
Study shows cause and effect on mercury in the Saint Louis River
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership The Minnesota Environmental Partnership recently commissioned an eye-opening report on one of the greatest ongoing environmental hazards in Northern Minnesota – the mercury contamination of… Read more »
Great Lakes platform calls for Presidential action on our greatest water resource
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership A few weeks ago, the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition (HOW) published its 2020 Great Lakes Platform, a list of policy priorities that it asks Presidential… Read more »
Climate impacts are disparate – solutions must be equitable
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership As if 2020 didn’t feature enough human health threats already, it is becoming even more starkly obvious this year that climate-worsened disasters – wildfires in… Read more »
Commission recommends Environmental Trust Fund projects for 2021
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Last week, Minnesota’s Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota resources (LCCMR) came to an agreement on recommending projects to be funded in 2021 by the Environment and Natural Resources… Read more »
MEP Statement on MN Agency Commissioners
Line 3 appeal hangs in the balance, Governor’s decision will be critical
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership This Wednesday marks the deadline for the Minnesota Commerce Department to choose whether to renew a critical challenge to the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline expansion… Read more »
Widespread lead poisoning crisis persists, despite established science on solutions
Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership One of the most harmful health problems in the United States today, as it has been for decades, is lead poisoning. It’s one of the… Read more »