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 »
Posts Categorized: Clean Water
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 »
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 »
Legislative Session Wrap-Up: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The Minnesota Legislature adjourned ahead of its constitutional deadline, and now as happened last year, everyone needs to sort out what just happened. A Supplemental Appropriations Bill was passed to… Read more »
Legislative Session brings progress, disappointments for Minnesota’s Great Outdoors
May 23, 2016 (Saint Paul, Minn) — As the 2016 Legislative Session adjourned late Sunday night, it’s clear that the outcomes of this Session will be marked by some steps… Read more »
MEP and members urge consideration on key priorities and concerns at legislature
Minnesota Environmental Partnership and our member groups delivered the following letter to Omnibus Supplemental Appropriations Bill Conferees calling their attention to the priorities and concerns of the environmental and conservation community of Minnesota…. Read more »
MN Environmental Partnership Statement on DNR PolyMet Determination
Saint Paul, Minn., March 3, 2016 — Earlier today, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released its Determination of Adequacy on the PolyMet sulfide mining project in northern Minnesota…. Read more »
Conservation groups object to PolyMet environmental study, encourage public to speak out
Saint Paul, Minn (Nov. 13, 2015) –– Conservation groups objected to the PolyMet “final environmental impact statement” and encouraged the public to join them in objecting to the proposed sulfide… Read more »
Legislature gives all for mining industry, but workers are next target anyway
Times are tough for workers in Minnesota’s mining industry. Low prices for metals have led to layoffs and plant closures that have affected more than 1,500 mine workers. Now, the… Read more »
Minnesota Environmental Partnership Issues Statement on Revised Ag and Environment Bill
Saint Paul, Minn. (June 5, 2015) — Earlier today, the Minnesota Legislature released a revised version of the Ag and Environment Budget Bill, following Governor Dayton’s veto of the bill… Read more »