By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership – (@mattjdoll) On Wednesday, as part of Climate Week in Minnesota, the Walz Administration announced its intent to make Minnesota the latest of 15 states to begin… Read more »
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Keeping “forever chemicals” out of Minnesota waters
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership This week, the US House Oversight Subcommittee on Environment held hearings on a growing health and safety issue in our waters and environments, especially… Read more »
Minnesotans join with global climate strike September 20
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On September 20, the second year of the Global Climate Strike movement will be well-represented here in Minnesota. Ten events across the state have been registered with the… Read more »
Empowering Minnesotans to start clean commuting
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership – (@mattjdoll) Two weeks ago, we reported on efforts to making Minnesota’s transportation sector – our number one source of carbon emissions – cleaner and… Read more »
MN lakes face blue-green problem
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership (@mattjdoll) This week, Carver Lake, a popular beach destination in Woodbury that draws hundreds from throughout the East Metro in warm months, became the latest… Read more »
Cleaning up the ways we get around in Minnesota
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership (@mattjdoll) This week, we’d like to thank all the Minnesotans who have spoken up this summer to help clean up Minnesota’s transportation. Hundreds of Minnesotans… Read more »
Climate Reality Leadership Corps comes to Minnesota
By Sara Wolff (@True2OurFuture) and Matt Doll (@mattjdoll), Minnesota Environmental Partnership Last weekend, more than a thousand climate activists, scholars, and leaders gathered in Minneapolis for a gathering of the… Read more »
Minnesota River problems call for regenerative solutions
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) recently began collecting public comments on its reports – and proposed solutions – for the challenges facing the… Read more »
Great Lakes groups ask presidential candidates to make greatest freshwater resource a priority
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership This week, the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition (in which MEP and other MEP member organizations participate) called on presidential candidates to respond its… Read more »
Twin Metals announcement alters sulfide mining picture …but doesn’t answer fundamental questions
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental On Thursday, Twin Metals announced some major changes to its proposal to conduct sulfide ore mining near Ely. Twin Metals’ new waste storage plan would… Read more »