Posts Categorized: Environmental Insider

    PUC Decision a Boost for Health, Clean Energy On Thursday, July 27, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) took a much-needed step forward on cleaner, safer energy by updating… Read more »

    The Costs of Cutting the Clean Water Rule EPA Director Scott Pruitt visited Minnesota this week as part of a multi-state tour to gather input from “stakeholders” on changes… Read more »

    Protecting and Celebrating our Great Lakes Waters On Wednesday, July 10, a bipartisan group of Congressional Representatives released a bill that would fund the vital Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) with… Read more »

      photo credit: NASA Sulfide Mining Debate Continues in the Northland Less than two weeks remain until the U.S. Forest Service begins its two listening sessions on a proposed 20-year mineral… Read more »

    Celebrating and Protecting Minnesota’s Waters Many of us in Minnesota will spend time this weekend and this Independence Day enjoying all that Minnesota’s lakes and rivers have to offer… Read more »

    Summer hearings have high stakes for Minnesota waters The Legislature won’t reconvene until early next year, but the government hearings being held throughout this summer will have a… Read more »

    Minnesota water quality meetings to begin as lakes and rivers under threat In Feburary 2017, Governor Mark Dayton announced Minnesota’s 25 by 25 Water Quality Goal, a project that aims… Read more »

    Pipeline Backers Feel Public Pushback On Tuesday, June 6, the Minnesota Department of Commerce held the first of a series of public comment meetings on a Draft Environmental… Read more »

                                    Rollbacks and Raids at State and Federal Levels On Monday, May 29, Governor Dayton… Read more »

New Round of Backward Bills Heads to Governor’s Desk In the early hours of Friday, May 26, leaders at the Minnesota Legislature announced that it was concluding a long and… Read more »