On Friday, December 7, the Minnesota Environmental Partnership held our annual meeting for member organizations, gathering together many of the groups around Minnesota that make up our coalition. We discussed… Read more »
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Improved VIDA legislation passes in Congress, offers protections from invasive species in Great Lakes
By Matt Doll – Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Tuesday, November 27, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a major piece of legislation, the U.S. Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2017,… Read more »
New tool aims to bring accountability to rural electric co-ops
By Matt Doll – Minnesota Environmental Partnership Earlier this week, grassroots rural organization CURE unveiled a new Rural Electric Cooperative Report Card that aims to bring better governance and transparency to Minnesota’s rural electric cooperatives…. Read more »
Minnesotans make their voices heard
By Matt Doll – Minnesota Environmental Partnership From September 21st to November 6th, more than two and a half million Minnesotans cast a ballot for the 2018 general election, setting a… Read more »
Minnesotans stand up for right to thorough review of potential pollution
By Matt Doll – Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Wednesday, October 31, residents of Winona County won a key victory as a District Court Judge in Ramsey County ruled to allow an… Read more »
Two Minnesota cases examine “necessity defense” for climate protests
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 »
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 »
Neighbor to neighbor, living with the Great Lakes
By Andrew Slade, Minnesota Environmental Partnership First to go was the line of sandbags we’d put down in case the waves crested the dunes. The waves kept cutting away. Then… 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 »