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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time 'person of the year'

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time 'person of the year'

"For sounding the alarm about humanity's predatory relationship with the only home we have, for bringing to a fragmented world a voice that transcends backgrounds and borders, for showing us all what it might look like when a new generation leads, Greta Thunberg is TIME's 2019 Person of the Year," the magazine said.
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Exxon wins New York climate change case

Exxon wins New York climate change case

New York's Attorney General argued that the oil giant misled shareholders about the financial risks from climate change.
by Laurel Wamsley

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Court rejects Minnesota's renewal of U.S. Steel mine permit

Court rejects Minnesota's renewal of U.S. Steel mine permit

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed a decision by state regulators to renew a wastewater permit for U.S. Steel's Minntac iron mine in northeastern Minnesota.
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Top environmental news in Minnesota from 2019

Top environmental news in Minnesota from 2019

This was a big year for environmental news in Minnesota. MPR News reporters Dan Kraker and Elizabeth Dunbar join the program and look back at the top stories in environmental news in 2019 and ahead to what’s to come in 2020.
by Elizabeth Dunbar, Dan Kraker, Angela Davis and Karen Zamora

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Big money is building a new kind of national park to protect Montana's prairie

Big money is building a new kind of national park to protect Montana's prairie

In Montana, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur wants to create a massive, privately funded public park. Some ranchers oppose the American Prairie Reserve and say they can better conserve the land.
by Nate Hegyi

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Climate Curious: We answer your questions about climate change

Climate Curious: We answer your questions about climate change

We’ve been collecting your questions about climate change. Now, we’ll give you the answers!

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Nature's 'Brita filter' is dying and nobody knows why

Nature's 'Brita filter' is dying and nobody knows why

A mysterious die-off of freshwater mussels has scientists scrambling to find a cause. Freshwater mussels clean water and provide habitat to countless other species.
by Nathan Rott

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