One doesn’t need pugilistic experience to feel the effects of a “sucker punch.” We’ve all experienced different versions of the cheap shot in our daily lives—we’re expecting one thing and… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Water
Water usage in the Cities
An article by the Pioneer Press’s Dennis Lien highlights a new report on drinking water usage in Minnesota: [The report] said Ramsey, a relatively small county geographically that contains St. Paul,… Read more »
Ontario to Tax for Great Lakes Water
Ontario’s government is considering a plan that would implement the Great Lakes Compact language that Minnesota agreed to in February and at the same time it would create a “conservation… Read more »
Mercury and Minnesota
Tuesday, the EPA approved Minnesota’s Mercury TMDL. So, what’s that mean?
Does the Senate DFL want a legacy of clean water?
The Senate DFL likes to talk about the need to clean up our lakes and rivers. We are, after all, the land of 10,000 lakes and photos of algae filled lakes and stories… Read more »
Clean Water Council formed to address state’s water
For all the growing pains the LCCMR experienced in the past year, the notion of creating committees that are a hybrid of citizens and elected representatives to address environmental issues… Read more »
Green Farms, Blue Water
The Minnesota River’s contribution of sediment to the Mississippi’s Lake Pepin has increased more than 12-fold since 1830. The Minnesota flows through an area composed of particularly fine-grained soils, which… Read more »
Water and Puppets
From the siting of ethanol plants based on available aquifers in Southwest Minnesota to the danger of bottling the Great Lakes that grace our Northeast corner, we need statewide conversations about how we… Read more »
Mark Trail’s Beaver Tales
As any avid consumer of the Star Tribune‘s comics page knows, a certain pesky, but lovable, woodland creature called “Lucky the Beaver” is driving Mark Trail to distraction these days…. Read more »
And they’re off
Today is the first day of the 2007 legislative session and it’s promising to be good for the environment of Minnesota.