Addressing the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, President Obama pledged on Tuesday night to compensate the people of the Gulf.
Koch Industries — which owns Rosemount’s Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend Refinery– is known to be a major funder of groups associated with the “anti-establishment”…
Sen. Al Franken grilled oil industry executives on Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The Minnesota Democrat asked Jack Coleman, a managing partner for EnergyNorthAmerica, LLC, if he…
The largest oil spill in U.S. history has received no absence of congressional scrutiny. Yet as lawmakers continue to focus their examinations on the environmental, economic and energy implications of the disaster, a number of labor advocates are beginning to wonder: What about the workers?
Rep. James Oberstar is urging his colleagues to support the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Oberstar, along with representatives from several other northern states, said on Monday that the number of families in need of energy assistance…
Rep. Collin Peterson has introduced a “disapproval resolution” in an attempt to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating climate change emissions. Peterson said that “EPA bureaucrats” should not be put in charge of regulating greenhouse gases because it…
Jeff Biggers watched helplessly as the hollers of Eagle Creek, Illinois — a corner of the Shawnee National Forest and his family’s home for roughly 200 years — were blasted away.
Minnesota has settled into climate-appropriate winter weather, but Gov. Pawlenty, just back from summer in South America, opined Monday that the science behind global warming is “unsettled” and cap-and-trade carbon controls are “the wrong direction.” On that…
Stymied by citizen resistance, the operator of Hennepin County’s incinerator in downtown Minneapolis tried in vain to get the state’s OK to burn more trash via an administrative end-run around a public hearing. The current permit requires public input for any change, state officials said.
Xcel Energy won’t ask ratepayers in Colorado to foot the bill for lavish executive perks after all, the Denver Post reports. Public scrutiny that was first raised in Minnesota in September focused recently on the St. Paul-based…
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