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State requires new environmental review for Hennepin trash burner

By Chris Steller | 01.14.10 | 6:15 pm

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is requiring a new environmental review of Hennepin County’s plans to burn more garbage at its downtown Minneapolis incinerator.

Leslie Davis was right: Keeping burner’s stink out of ballpark will cost county

By Chris Steller | 01.30.09 | 3:41 am

Hennepin County commissioners learned Thursday that they’ll have to pay $500,000 to stop the stink from the county’s downtown garbage burner from entering the new, county-sales-tax-funded, open-air Minnesota Twins stadium next door. It’s exactly the kind of thing environmental activist Leslie Davis predicted when he sued for further environmental study of the Twins’ ballpark plans.