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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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Whip smart: Cottonwood planting takes root as worries grow

Whip smart: Cottonwood planting takes root as worries grow

When people hear about Maria DeLaundreau's summer cottonwood planting project, they think she's crazy. Plant more of those messy, trees? What about the seeds?
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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DNR says Minnesota wolf population stable

DNR says Minnesota wolf population stable

This will be Minnesota's third wolf hunting season since the animals came off the endangered list.
by The Associated Press

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$50M pipe might not restore White Bear Lake levels

$50M pipe might not restore White Bear Lake levels

A draft of a report by the Metropolitan Council says shifting some suburbs' reliance from groundwater to Mississippi River water could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. It also says piping water from the river to raise levels in White Bear Lake would cost $50 million but leave officials uncertain of the impact.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Chef Dan Barber on what's missing in the farm-to-table equation

Chef Dan Barber on what's missing in the farm-to-table equation

Chef and author Dan Barber joins us to talk about his new book, "The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food."

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Minnesota backers praise EPA carbon rules

Minnesota backers praise EPA carbon rules

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency isn't holding any of its carbon emission rule hearings in Minnesota. So supporters of the rules held their own.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Hear investigative reports on drinking water arsenic, Coast Guard accidents and more

Hear investigative reports on drinking water arsenic, Coast Guard accidents and more

A new episode of the PRX investigative reporting series called "Reveal." The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Center for Public Integrity worked on these reports: about increased accidents with the Coast Guard's expanded mission, Congressional influence on the EPA's arsenic in drinking water regulations, and veterans and the GI Bill at for-profit colleges like the University of Phoenix.

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Invasive carp found in Miss. River near Cottage Grove

Invasive carp found in Miss. River near Cottage Grove

The Minnesota DNR has found invasive carp farther upstream in the Mississippi than the fish has previously been encountered.
by Jon Collins

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Farmers fume over proposed EPA wetlands rule change

Farmers fume over proposed EPA wetlands rule change

Environmental Protection Agency officials insist new exemptions will ease and clarify regulation on agricultural land. But some farmers are concerned that the new rules will give federal regulators an expanded role on farmer's fields.
by Dan Gunderson

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