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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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Elizabeth Kolbert on Earth's 'Sixth Extinction'

Elizabeth Kolbert on Earth's 'Sixth Extinction'

We're experiencing the sixth mass extinction right now and this one is entirely our doing. Elizabeth Kolbert painstakingly details just what's going on.

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3 weeks after New Mexico nuclear dump leak, crews venture into facility

3 weeks after New Mexico nuclear dump leak, crews venture into facility

Officials acknowledge they are in uncharted territory in responding to something that has never happened since the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant opened in 1999. The site is important to the nation's efforts to clean up decades of Cold War-era waste, and administrators are eager to resume operations once they are convinced it's safe to do so.

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EPA reverses itself on iron facility pollution

EPA reverses itself on iron facility pollution

In a notice filed Monday in federal court, EPA officials said they were voluntarily vacating the agency's approval in December 2012 of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's variance for Mesabi Nugget, which produces iron pellets at a plant near Hoyt Lakes. The EPA instead plans to reject the variance, the filing said.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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How Minnesota animals survive the winter

How Minnesota animals survive the winter

Phil Jenni, director of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, joins us to take listener questions regarding Minnesota wildlife.

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Are you confident the proposed PolyMet mine would avoid polluting Minnesota’s water?

Are you confident the proposed PolyMet mine would avoid polluting Minnesota’s water?

“[The] DNR has described a mine that functions perfectly, exactly as intended, that has no problems whatsoever…but they don’t explore scenarios in which something goes wrong.” — Kathryn Hoffman, an attorney for the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy “Minnesotans have until Thursday to comment on the environmental analysis of the proposed PolyMet mine, a huge…
by Michael Olson

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Scale of PolyMet technology leads to more questions

Scale of PolyMet technology leads to more questions

Minnesotans have until Thursday to comment on the environmental analysis of the proposed PolyMet mine, a huge document containing detailed plans on how the company would keep pollutants from the mine and tailings basin out of nearby lakes and rivers. That plan hinges on new technologies and engineering that PolyMet added after its last proposal was sharply criticized four years ago.
by Dan Kraker

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EPA expected to comment on PolyMet study this week

Supporters and opponents of a controversial copper-nickel mining proposal are making one last push to get people to comment on the project's environmental study.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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DNR looks at elk future

A meeting in Greenbush, Minn. on Thursday evening will look at possible changes in the state's elk management plan that expires at the end of next year.
by Mark Steil

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PolyMet copper-nickel mining in Minnesota

PolyMet copper-nickel mining in Minnesota

PolyMet Mining wants to mine copper, nickel and precious metals for 20 years at a site located just north of Hoyt Lakes in the Superior National Forest. The NorthMet Deposit is part of what is known as the Duluth Complex, which stretches from about 150 miles north of Duluth all the way to the Canadian border.

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Strong solar power demand outstripping Minnesota subsidy program

Strong solar power demand outstripping Minnesota subsidy program

The Made in Minnesota incentive program helps homeowners and businesses install solar energy systems manufactured in the state. Demand is so high that applications that the state received in January and February will be selected by lottery.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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