By Matt Doll – Minnesota Environmental Partnership During this month, two important cases of civil disobedience have been brought before courts in Minnesota with a highly unusual twist. Defendants in Bagley… Read more »
Posts By: Matt Doll
Less than three weeks remaining: A participation guide to the 2018 election
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Last Tuesday, October 16, marked the three-week-out mark for the 2018 midterm election, and the last day for Minnesotans to register to vote prior… Read more »
A reason for hope: Minnesotans’ role in confronting climate change
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership This week’s United Nations report on climate change – estimating that the global community has roughly twelve years to cut emissions in half in… Read more »
An unprecedented raid and a betrayal of voters’ trust
Why MEP and our allies chose to take a stand By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Wednesday, the Minnesota Environmental Partnership and eight partnering organizations served the Minnesota Department… Read more »
Great Lakes Restoration is an economic goldmine
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Tuesday, a study headed by the University of Michigan reported that the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) – which works to improve water quality and… Read more »
World Car Free Day celebrates vision of cleaner transportation
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Yesterday, September 21, the City of Minneapolis partnered with Move Minneapolis to celebrate World Car Free Day, marked by cities around the world as a day… Read more »
Minnesotans demand leaders act now on climate change
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership This week saw a tremendous groundswell in climate advocacy in Minnesota at a moment when the impacts of our changing climate are becoming more… Read more »
Federal reversal on mining near BWCAW threatens Minnesota waters
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Thursday, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced its cancellation of a Forest Service study and moratorium on mineral exploration in the watershed of… Read more »
Minnesotans rally in Bemidji, showing that Line 3 fight is far from over
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Wednesday, August 29, more than 100 people gathered in Bemidji and occupied several streets to share a message: the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline… Read more »
Newburg Township Board halts massive hog feedlot in SE MN
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Thursday, August 23, the Newburg Township Board in Fillmore County voted in the presence of more than 200 community members to institute a one-year… Read more »