By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Tuesday and Thursday, September 19-20, the city of Duluth hosted the annual meeting of the Great Lakes Commission (GLC), an interstate compact dedicated to discussing… Read more »
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MEP Welcomes Commerce Testimony on Line 3
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership On Monday, September 11, the Minnesota Department of Commerce released an analysis arguing that the proposed Enbridge Line 3 replacement pipeline, which would carry Alberta tar… Read more »
The Wild Rice Harvest Begins, Under Threat from Oil Pipelines
By Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership At the end of every Minnesota summer, a centuries-old tradition continues on the waters home to the plant the Ojibwe call “manoomin”– wild rice…. Read more »
Hundreds from across Minnesota rally at Capitol to “Protect our Water!”
Hundreds from across Minnesota rally at Capitol to “Protect our Water!” Governor Dayton, Winona LaDuke, Ann Bancroft among speakers rallying for Minnesota’s water St. Paul, Minnesota – On April 19, a… Read more »
Minnesota Takes Two Steps Backward on Energy Policy
The Minnesota Environmental Partnership is proud to feature the following post as part of a series of columns as part of a Student Voices Series issues. This is part of a continuing… Read more »
Time for Minnesotans to Get Serious About Climate
The Minnesota Environmental Partnership is proud to feature the following post as part of a series of columns as part of a Student Voices Series issues. This is part of a continuing… Read more »
A fighting chance for Minnesota bees
As Scott Pruitt takes over as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, it’s clearer than ever that our federal decision-makers won’t be stepping up to protect communities — or our… Read more »
Environmental Rollbacks are Out of Step with What Minnesotans Want, Says New Research
St. Paul, Minn. (March 1, 2017) — At the same time when Minnesota Legislators are debating a torrent of rollbacks a new poll shows that Minnesotans of all backgrounds and… Read more »
Four Weeks In: A New Direction for Minnesota’s Energy Policy?
As we approach the end of the first month of the 2017 session of the Minnesota Legislature, a number of bills are moving quickly. While high-profile issues such as health… Read more »
Opponents of Minnesota’s buffer law claim it’s an unconstitutional taking. It’s not.
Yesterday’s joint House Environment and Natural Resources and Agriculture committee hearing on implementation of Minnesota’s buffer program included quite a number of statements from legislators and testifiers claiming that the law… Read more »