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.
The skies over Northern Minnesota’s signature natural areas will get 30 percent clearer — by 2018 — under new rules approved today by a 7-1 vote of the state Pollution Control Agency board.
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.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) won’t take a position — yet — on whether to require a new environmental study before Hennepin County’s downtown Minneapolis incinerator can burn more trash, because the agency doesn’t have a pending application for the project.
Just like in the Atlantic Ocean, where an oil slick came not from a downed Air France jet but from who-knows-what, officials in Minnesota want help explaining how 1,000 gallons of diesel got into the Mississippi…
Before you go for a dip in one of Minnesota’s 11,842 lakes this summer or fry up a shore lunch of fish caught from one of those lakes, you might want to check your lake for mercury or…
With Sunshine Week just around the corner, State Administration Commissioner Dana Badgerow is singing a different tune: send in the clouds. Badgerow ruled last month that Minnesotans can no longer get home contact info for fellow citizens who serve…
Five Minnesota organizations are among the first to sign up for a national greenhouse gas emissions registry.
Xcel Energy, Great River Energy, the Metropolitan Council, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and The Appliance Recycling Centers of America have joined
Editor’s note: As we count down the final days of 2007, we look back at some of the most interesting or important stories of the past year. Here’s the third in this ongoing series.
The last year has been…
The November 2007 State Economic Forecast estimates the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) will spend $650,000 in fiscal year 2008 and $400,000 in fiscal year…
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