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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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How we did the irrigation well permit story

How MPR News found hundreds of irrigation wells pumping groundwater without a required state permit.
by Dave Peters

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Newbie urban gardeners may not be aware of soil's dirty legacy

Newbie urban gardeners may not be aware of soil's dirty legacy

According to figures just released by the National Gardening Association, the number of American growing food in urban areas increased 29 percent between 2008 and 2013 from 7 million to 9 million people. But many of these city-dwelling gardeners still aren't aware of how to grow food in urban soil safely, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Center for a Livable Future.
by Maanvi Singh

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Feds hope $5 billion settlement a lesson for polluters

Feds hope $5 billion settlement a lesson for polluters

This week, the federal government announced a record-breaking $5 billion settlement in a remarkable environmental case. The toxic legacy of the company involved, Kerr-McGee, stretches back 85 years and includes scores of sites across the country.
by Elizabeth Shogren

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Quam named Nature Conservancy's chief operating officer

Quam named Nature Conservancy's chief operating officer

Lois Quam had recently served as a special adviser to U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry focusing on global health and public-private partnerships.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Enbridge oil pipeline expansion plan spurs heated debate

Enbridge oil pipeline expansion plan spurs heated debate

Several hundred activists gathered Thursday to speak for an against a plan by Enbridge Energy to expand an oil pipeline project.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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US reaches $5.15 billion environmental settlement

The federal government on Thursday reached a $5.15 billion settlement with Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the largest ever for environmental contamination, to settle claims related to the cleanup of thousands of sites tainted with hazardous chemicals for decades.
by The Associated Press

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Climate change activists to protest Minn. oil pipeline project

Climate change activists to protest Minn. oil pipeline project

State regulators have already signed off on Enbridge's plan to increase capacity to 570,000 barrels per day. Now the company is asking the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to approve an increased capacity of 800,000 barrels per day.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Climate One: Are extreme weather events a result of climate change?

Climate One: Are extreme weather events a result of climate change?

In this edition of Climate One from the Commonwealth Club of California, host Greg Dalton speaks with two MacArthur "genius grant" recipients who study climate science, and with US Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on the ways the Navy is trying to reduce its carbon footprint.

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Helping hoarders let go

Helping hoarders let go

Often, the hoarder is dealing with unresolved trauma from the death of a loved one, abandonment or a divorce.

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