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Opponents file new challenge to proposed Twin Metals mine
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleges the Bureau of Land Management should have prepared an in-depth environmental impact statement but conducted only a limited review.
National Science Foundation documentary: Listening to the Arctic
The Arctic is warming faster than nearly everywhere else on Earth, bringing with it new opportunities and unprecedented risks — environmental, social, economic, cultural, legal and political.
More PFAS foam found in Twin Cities' Battle Creek
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is advising people to keep away from foam in the east Twin Cities metro-area creek, after samples of it have again tested positive for elevated levels of the chemicals known as PFAS.
Dispute over environmental fund leaves projects on wolves, weeds and mussels in limbo
Dozens of projects benefiting Minnesota’s natural resources are now in limbo because of a political dispute at the state Legislature. At the center: An ongoing disagreement over whether a state trust fund should be used to pay for wastewater treatment projects.
'Murder Hornets,' with sting that can kill, land in U.S.
The world's largest hornet, a 2-inch killer dubbed the "Murder Hornet" with an appetite for honey bees, has been found in Washington state, where entomologists were making plans to wipe it out.
As energy use changes in the Great Lakes, so too does the world’s largest freshwater port
The Port of Duluth-Superior is one of the largest ports in the United States, an economic engine long known for shipping iron ore mined in northeast Minnesota to steel mills throughout the Midwest. Yet its second-largest commodity is less well known, and sourced nowhere near Minnesota and Wisconsin: coal.