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Crop failure rate for wild rice is increasing with climate change

Crop failure rate for wild rice is increasing with climate change

Climate change is taking a significant toll on wild rice in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the plant's significance to Ojibwe communities makes finding a solution all the more delicate — and dire.
by Paul Huttner and Megan Burks

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State utility regulators reaffirm support for Line 3

State utility regulators reaffirm support for Line 3

By a 4-1 vote Thursday, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission denied petitions from several tribes and environmental groups requesting that the commission reconsider its approval of the controversial proposed oil pipeline across northern Minnesota. Those groups are now expected to file challenges at the Minnesota Court of Appeals. 
by Dan Kraker

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New lawsuit targets Minnesota's copper-nickel mining rules

New lawsuit targets Minnesota's copper-nickel mining rules

The rules, written in 1993, should be updated to ban mining in the same watershed as the BWCAW, Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters said.

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Agassiz dropped from Fargo-Moorhead greenway project over racist writings

"Unbeknownst to anyone on our project team, Louis Agassiz was a proponent of scientific racism and wrote prolifically on issues of white supremacy in the 1800's," the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council of Governments said. It's working on a new name.
by The Associated Press

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Minnesota sues oil companies, institute over climate change

Minnesota sues oil companies, institute over climate change

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute on Wednesday, alleging they deceived and defrauded Minnesotans about climate change.
by The Associated Press

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