My family and I operate a dairy farm in Goodhue County’s Zumbrota Township in southeastern Minnesota. My father bought our farm in 1942, and I have lived on this land… Read more »
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We stand together around shared priorities
Minnesota’s Great Outdoors is more than just the beautiful natural spaces, clean lakes, prairie lands and forests. It’s about the health and vitality of our people and communities. The coalition… Read more »
Twin Metals: Victory for now, but still work to do
Evidence has been piling up about the long-lasting risk that copper-nickel sulfide mining poses to Minnesota’s precious water and wild places. In 2014, Mount Polley’s “state of the art” sulfide… Read more »
Minnesota’s People, Communities, Businesses to Benefit from Water Bill that supports Great Lakes Restoration
December 12, 2016 (Duluth, Minn.) — In a major victory this weekend for the people, businesses, and communities in Minnesota which rely on the Great Lakes for their drinking water,… Read more »
MEP and members urge President Obama and Attorney General Lynch to reconsider permits for Dakota Access Pipeline
Minnesota Environmental Partnership and our member groups delivered the following letter to President Obama and Attorney General Lynch, expressing their support and solidarity to the Sanding Rock Sioux Tribe and… Read more »
PolyMet Updates and Where We Go From Here
On November 3, 2016 PolyMet filed its Permit to Mine with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. This year has seen a flurry of permit applications by PolyMet, all leading… Read more »
What happens now?
It feels like the world changed overnight this week. The results of election on Tuesday, up and down the ballot, will have long and far reaching effects for our environment…. Read more »
4 Reasons to Schedule your Give to the Max Day gift
Each November, Minnesota celebrates giving back to our community on Give to the Max Day! This year, this annual day of giving is on Thursday, November 17. But you don’t… Read more »
Report from Standing Rock
Editors note: Minnesota Environmental Partnership’s Northeast Minnesota Program Coordinator Abbie Plouff and Great Lakes Program Coordinator Irene Folstrom headed out this week to assist the Standing Rock Camp’s protest against… Read more »
Minnesota’s Stake in the Fight Against the Dakota Access Pipeline
“The fact that Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the pipeline, would use the word “Dakota”, which means “friend” or “ally”, in the name of its project is disrespectful. This… Read more »