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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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Big business pushes coal-friendly Kentucky to embrace renewables

Big business pushes coal-friendly Kentucky to embrace renewables

Nearly 90 percent of Kentucky's electricity is from coal -- the cheap energy source that helped build its manufacturing economy. Now it's struggling to respond as more businesses want clean energy.
by Jennifer Ludden

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20 years after epic flood, Red River towns no longer dread the spring

20 years after epic flood, Red River towns no longer dread the spring

The 1997 flood transformed the Red River Valley and its residents. State and federal officials responded with $1.1 billion in infrastructure spending to make sure a catastrophe never happens again.
by Dan Gunderson

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Artist sets futuristic dinner party in world reshaped by rising seas

Artist sets futuristic dinner party in world reshaped by rising seas

How will our diets shift as climate change causes sea-level rise and coastal flooding? Photographer Allie Wist attempts to answer that with pictures of an imagined "post-sea-level-rise dinner party."
by Rhitu Chatterjee

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Wisconsin turns to Minnesota for new blood to restore grouse

Starting next week, wildlife biologists plan to capture as many as 60 sharp-tailed grouse on their booming grounds in far northwestern Minnesota to bring new blood into the Wisconsin population.
by Associated Press

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Snowy surprise this week, but nowhere near state record

MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with University of Minnesota climatologist Mark Seeley about the weather whiplash we had this week going from a sunny Sunday to a snowy Monday to a warm Tuesday.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Moving water to White Bear Lake could cost as much as $48 million

Moving water to White Bear Lake could cost as much as $48 million

The DNR has released details of a plan to replenish the lake, which is gradually recovering after a major drop in water levels.
by Matt Sepic

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Massive solar array will generate benefit for National Guard, civilians

Massive solar array will generate benefit for National Guard, civilians

A massive new solar farm is now generating electricity at Camp Ripley in central Minnesota. The project is part of the military training facility's effort to produce more energy than it consumes.
by Kirsti Marohn

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In coal country, environmental regulations are creating jobs

In coal country, environmental regulations are creating jobs

Though President Trump speaks about how environmental regulations kill jobs, in some areas, the regulations help create them. In coal country, restoring streams is steady work.
by Glynis Board

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Minnesota firefighters brace for busy spring wildfire season

Minnesota firefighters brace for busy spring wildfire season

Areas of north-central and northwestern Minnesota are as much as an inch and a half below average precipitation levels, leading fire officials to predict higher than average fire activity.
by Dan Kraker

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