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MPR News is your source for environment news from Minnesota and across the country.

Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

Getting to Green is an MPR News series that shares stories about Minnesota’s clean energy transition, including what needs to be done to get there.

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The economics of the new climate report

We're already paying for the impacts of climate change, the new National Climate Assessment says. And those costs will likely go way up in the future.
by Paul Huttner

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Bethany McLean on 'Saudi America'

Bethany McLean on 'Saudi America'

Reporter Bethany McLean, author of, "Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World."

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Fertilize crops with human waste? Let me explain, researcher says

Fertilize crops with human waste? Let me explain, researcher says

Jeremy Guest, a professor at the University of Illinois, is visiting the Twin Cities to talk about technologies that turn human waste into fertilizers similar to the synthetic fertilizers many farmers use to grow corn and soybeans.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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In oil pipeline fight, should the theater be off-limits?

A performance by the Theater of Public Policy was shut down this month by Enbridge pipeline opponents. Both sides debated the appropriateness of silencing voices, with dueling op-eds in the Star Tribune.
by Bob Collins

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Microbes in the crop rows: Soil's secrets may yield a new ag revolution

Microbes in the crop rows: Soil's secrets may yield a new ag revolution

A U of M scientist is leading an international effort that explores the next frontier of science: Soil microbes. Her research could fundamentally change the way farmers grow the food we eat.
by Dan Gunderson

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Minnesota officials call for federal help to combat fatal deer disease

Minnesota officials call for federal help to combat fatal deer disease

Minnesota wildlife officials and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar are urging Congress to allocate more funding toward monitoring chronic wasting disease in the deer population.
by Nina Moini

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A year after Keystone oil leak, final investigative report still pending

It's been a year since the Keystone pipeline leaked about 407,000 gallons of oil in northeastern South Dakota, and while the damage has been mitigated, a final federal investigation report has yet to be released.
by Associated Press

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Minnesota electric co-ops fail to disclose info online

A new report by rural environmental group CURE looks at data available on the websites of Minnesota's 44 rural electric cooperatives and found none of them include information about generation portfolios.
by Associated Press

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Outgoing Michigan governor pushing for Great Lakes pipeline

Outgoing Michigan governor pushing for Great Lakes pipeline

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder hopes to use the final weeks of his tenure to lock in a deal allowing construction of a hotly debated oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes — a plan his successor opposes but may be powerless to stop.
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