Today’s topics: Member News, 3M Chemicals, Agriculture, Development, Energy, Food, Music, Natural Areas, Non-Native Invasive Species, Superfund, Transportation, Water and Wildlife.
Member News
- Winona Daily News: Area farmers to host celebration for Land Stewardship Project
3M Chemicals
- Pioneer Press: Chemical holds up city water plant
- Brainerd Dispatch: Wastewater woe could cost us millions
- Brainerd Dispatch: Toxic chemical: Seeking a solution
Agriculture
- Pioneer Press: In the fight over farm aid, this is a front line
(MEP member group Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is quoted) - Star Tribune Editorial: Get pesticides out of the Whitewater
- Star Tribune: Hot enough for ya? It could be sweaty corn
- Mankato Free Press Editorial: Corn boom has flip side
Development
- Star Tribune: Progress on river development plan barely a trickle
- St. Cloud Times: Local building leaders take ecologically friendly measures
Energy
- Minnesota Public Radio: Murphy Oil owners want to expand in Superior
(MEP member group Fresh Energy is quoted) - Minnesota Public Radio: Landowners appeal oil pipeline approval
- Pioneer Press: Pawlenty unveils ‘clean energy’ plan to governors
- Star Tribune: Pawlenty revs up his peers on energy
- Star Tribune Editorial: Pawlenty’s NGA role is a plus for the state
- Star Tribune: Energy research can be trial and error
- WCCO: Energy Tops Pawlenty’s Agenda As New Leader Of NGA
- Forum Communications: Minn. model for clean energy
- Grand Forks Herald Editorial: Wind2H2
- Morris Sun Tribune: Groundbreaking for UMM biomass plant July 27
- West Central Tribune: Preliminary work continues on proposed wind energy project
Food
- Star Tribune: Too many markets or too few farmers?
- Minnesota Public Radio: The ethics of eating
- Grand Forks Herald Editorial: From Green to Gene revolution
Music
- Detroit Lakes Tribune: 10KL Fest goes green
Natural Areas
- Star Tribune Editorial: A new state park is a welcome vision
- Star Tribune: Dennis Anderson: Can we afford new state park?
- Star Tribune: The state of state parks: Good, but room to get better
- Duluth News Tribune: Officials tour Lake Vermilion
- Ely Echo: New state park proposed for U.S. Steel land on Lake Vermilion
- Timberjay: State park sought for Vermilion
Non-Native Invasive Species
- Fergus Falls Daily Journal Editorial: Let’s keep milfoil out of county
Superfund
- Star Tribune: EPA to give update on south Minneapolis arsenic cleanup
Transportation
- Star Tribune: Suburbs shift gears, make room for bikes
Water
- Star Tribune Editorial: Congress should back Oberstar’s water bill
- St. Cloud Times: Smelly algae overtakes Little Rock Lake
- Worthington Daily Globe: River configuration may change
Wildlife
From the blogosphere
- MN2020: Back to the Future: A Minneapolis streetcar revival
(MEP member group Transit for Livable Communities is quoted) - AmericanGreen.TV: Suzlon Rotor Corporation – Pipeston, MN