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Posts Categorized: Energy
10th grader testifies against coal pollution
Cole Norgaarden, a 10th grader at the Blake School in Minneapolis, testified Thursday, Jan. 27 at the House Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance Committee during the hearing of House File 72. The bill proposes to repeal a Minnesota statute that limits carbon dioxide emissions by utilities.
What are your candidates’ positions on energy issues? Here are some sample questions to ask
We have compiled a list of questions related to clean energy that could be used at a public forum
MEP’s Candidate Education Project: Check out our new story
We’ve posted a new story to our Clean Energy Jobs website! This is the latest addition to our ongoing project that features Minnesotans whose jobs contribute to the Clean Energy… Read more »
MEP’s Candidate Education Project: We need your help!
MEP’s Candidate Education Project is off to a terrific start. Since late May, MEP has been briefing candidates for public office on the importance of investing in Minnesota’s clean energy… Read more »
MEP’s Candidate Education Project: Why focus on jobs?
By Kara Cook, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Communications Intern Minnesota Environmental Partnership is currently in phase two of our Nonpartisan Candidate Outreach program, which Ryan introduced here. Our polling data from… Read more »
MEP’s Candidate Education Project: An Introduction
By Ryan Kennedy, Minnesota Environmental Partnership Candidate Outreach Intern The Nonpartisan Candidate Outreach program currently underway here at the Minnesota Environmental Partnership is working to put energy issues at the… Read more »
Quirky Twists of Fate
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – March 26, 2010 “Peculiar haze, or smokey fog … unlike anything known within the memory of man.” – English naturalist Gilbert White, Summer 1783 Natural… Read more »
Some Good Agitation for Our State’s Nuclear Energy Policy
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – March 5, 2010 “I think the agitation that I made on the matter contributed much to the discontinuance by the government of the pernicious practice”… Read more »
The Law of Nuclear Waste
John Tuma’s Capitol Update – The Pre-Session Version “There is a basic law of nuclear waste often overlooked – all waste remains where it is first put.” – Richard Wilson… Read more »