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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

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Sacre bleu: It's Paris in the smog time

Sacre bleu: It's Paris in the smog time

Paris is suffering from the worst smog it's seen in decades. Associated Press Paris Bureau Chief Angela Charlton explains the ways the city's dealing with the smog, including restrictions on drivers.

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Pellet gun killed wolf that fled Isle Royale park

Pellet gun killed wolf that fled Isle Royale park

Scientists who study the park's wolves and moose say the wolf was a loner and had been attacked by other wolves before escaping this winter across a Lake Superior ice bridge.
by Dan Kraker

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Tribes, health officials, Chamber of Commerce weigh in on PolyMet

Tribes, health officials, Chamber of Commerce weigh in on PolyMet

The nearly 50,000 comments the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has collected on the PolyMet copper-nickel mining proposal include e-mails, hand-written letters and postcards, and even full research reports containing hundreds of pages of graphs and data analysis.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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EPA gives PolyMet mine study a passing grade, with conditions

EPA gives PolyMet mine study a passing grade, with conditions

The assessment was far better than the rating PolyMet's environmental study received four years ago. EPA said then that the study provided an inadequate assessment of the proposed mine's effects on the environment.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Minneapolis Park Board commissioner says new SWLRT tunnel plan requires a deeper look

Minneapolis Park Board commissioner says new SWLRT tunnel plan requires a deeper look

There is yet another new proposal on the table to solve one of the trickiest questions about the proposed Southwest light rail line: "the deeper shallow tunnel." MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner Anita Tabb, who represents the Kennilworth area, about it.
by Cathy Wurzer

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What's the value of solar energy?

What's the value of solar energy?

Minnesota became the first state to set a so-called "value of solar" tariff with a 3-2 vote Wednesday by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.

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As PolyMet mine comment window closes, all eyes turn to EPA

As PolyMet mine comment window closes, all eyes turn to EPA

Although the Department of Natural Resources has already received over 40,000 comments, there's one particular letter everyone following the project is waiting for: the EPA's.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Wild rice study reveals more questions for state officials

Wild rice study reveals more questions for state officials

Three years after the Legislature ordered a study on how a key pollutant affects wild rice, state officials said more questions remain about whether and how Minnesota water quality standards should change.
by Elizabeth Dunbar and Dan Kraker

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Appetites: Local chefs, foodies, pitch in to save pollinators

Appetites: Local chefs, foodies, pitch in to save pollinators

Minnesota chefs and other foodies who don't want to live in a world without fruit, seeds, and nuts, are determined to do something about it.
by Tom Crann

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Critics of PolyMet mine want state to extend comment period

Critics of PolyMet mine want state to extend comment period

The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness last week sent letters to the state Department of Natural Resources and the federal agencies overseeing the study, citing missing data associated with the nearly 2,200-page document.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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