Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Rep. James Oberstar are urging the federal Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to speed up the process of removing the Great Lakes populations of gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Outside of Alaska, Minnesota…
In a rare move, Minnesota’s Democratic and Republican members of Congress are coming together on an issue: Stopping the spread of Asian carp into the Great Lakes ecosystem. Rep. Erik Paulsen and Sen. Amy Klobuchar told reporters at…
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…
The Conservation Minnesota Voter Center released its scorecard of Minnesota’s members of Congress on Monday. Delegation members were ranked for their votes on policies relating to clean energy, land conservation, environmental funding and offshore drilling, among others. Democratic Reps. James…
The national chapter of the Sierra Club has launched an ad attacking Rep. Michele Bachmann for what the group says are close ties to the oil industry. The ads are in their second week of a two-week run on…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Friday that the federal government was removing the gray wolf from the list of species protected under the Endangered Species Act. Minnesota’s gray wolf population is one the nation’s largest, second only to…
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) unanimously approved the Certificate of Need for a transmission line project necessary for the construction of the Big Stone II coal-fired power plant in Milbank, South Dakota.
Despite a room full of citizens opposed to the plants construction for environmental concerns, many holding signs and some dressed in animal costumes, the PUC did not deliberate on the coal-fired facility itself or the environmental impacts that it may have, focusing instead on the cost of the project and its implications for utility rate payers.
A years-long battle over a proposed coal plant in South Dakota could come to a close during a Minnesota Public Utility Commission hearing in St. Paul this Thursday. The commission will decide on whether to issue a Certificate of Need for transmission line upgrades in Minnesota required to construct the Big Stone II coal-fired power plant.
If the certificate is denied the project will likely be scrapped entirely. If approved, environmental groups will be left with little recourse against the plant’s construction.
A proposed constitutional amendment to provide dedicated funding for the environment and arts during the next 25 years is proving to be one of the most intriguing statewide election battles,…
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