Local view: Obama's leadership needed to address global warming
On May 9, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed a long-feared milestone. Scientists at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reported it reached a concentration of 400 parts per million,...
View ArticleJohn Hoffman: Minnesota Legacy Amendments: Making our investment in clean...
The Clean Water Accountability Act (CWAA) passed earlier this year works to cleanup waterways through more effective monitoring strategies, priority funding for non-point source pollution and clearer...
View ArticleNitrogen pollution widespread in southern Minnesota waters, report finds
Nitrogen contamination in the southern half of Minnesota is so severe that 27 percent of the state’s lakes and rivers could not be used as drinking water, according to a new and unexpectedly blunt...
View ArticleMinnesota's role in nitrate pollution
At stake: the safety of the state’s drinking water and the health of fish and other aquatic life in its rivers and streams. And far downstream, the future of the Gulf of Mexico, where the...
View ArticleNew law aims to make agencies accountable for clean water
The recently passed Clean Water Accountability Act utilizes new Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies or WRAPS which will shift the focus from individual lakes and streams to entire...
View ArticleSaint Paul gets charged up for electric vehicles with solar-powered EV stations
The increasing popularity of electric vehicles has led the City of Saint Paul to work together with Drive Electric Minnesota to create an EV charging infrastructure.
View ArticleStormwater Runoff: The Pollution Engine
More frequent and intense thunderstorms are delivering more rainfall than the ground can absorb leading to agriculture and chemical pollution running off into Minnesota lakes and rivers.
View ArticleActivists Gather 15,000 Petitions to Oppose Sulfide Mining on the Iron Range
Minnesota Environmentalists gathered in Canal Park to call for an end to sulfide mining projects on the Iron Range. Environment Minnesota collected thousands of signatures in opposition of Polymet's...
View ArticlePolyMet mine debate has competing visions for Up North
More than 2,000 people from across the state packed the RiverCentre for the third and final public hearing on the PolyMet Mining Corporation’s proposal for a $650 million open pit mine near Babbitt, Minn.
View ArticleMinnesota's BWCA and Kawishiwi make list of most endangered rivers
The South Kawishiwi — a clean, cold river near Ely, Minn., that tumbles out of the BWCA and then back into it — is threatened by copper mining projects pending along its banks and on the doorstep of...
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