A climate strategist hired to help Minnesota meet its aggressive greenhouse-gas reduction targets says reaching the goals might save the state’s economy billions of dollars.
Thomas Peterson, executive director of the Center for Climate Strategies, is a coordinator for…
Minnesota has joined 16 other states in suing the Bush administration for the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
Attorney General Lori Swanson announced today that her…
Minnesota is not yet among a group of states suing the Bush administration for the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. But the state could soon become entangled in the conflict, as lobbyists and lawmakers…
Minnkota Power Cooperative, an electricity provider in northwest Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, has been making a case about global warming — against the scientific consensus that it’s real. The blog Solar Kismet pored over…
Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, today’s global warming podcast focuses on residential energy use. It’s the last in a four-part, year-end series on greenhouse gas emissions.
So far, we’ve talked about electricity generation (Thursday), transportation (Friday)…
It’s New Year’s Eve, and time for the third installment in our series of daily podcasts about global warming, how we addressed it in 2007 and what trends we can expect in 2008.
Each podcast focuses on a single source…
As the year comes to a close, Minnesota Monitor is looking back at what was a big year for discussion of global warming. We heard more about climate change in 2007 than any other year,…
Global warming gained unprecedented attention in 2007. We’re now more aware than ever about the need to take action and the possible consequences if we do not. But besides all the…
It’s the reason some call it white gold: Our early season snowfall has meant a flurry of business for the state’s skiing and snowboarding industry.
As skiers hit the slopes, though, emerging research on global warming, along with our…
A bottom-up effort is underway within the National Park Service to raise awareness about climate change and the need to address its impacts on our natural parks. One…
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