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Cleanup of Winona oil spill begins Thursday

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is requiring the company to clean up portions of the spill where puddles of oil have accumulated or are on top of snow.
by Elizabeth Baier

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MPCA investigates 12K-gallon oil spill near Winona

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency was investigating Tuesday after a Canadian Pacific Railway train dribbled about 12,000 gallons of crude oil along 68 miles of track between Winona and Red Wing in southeastern Minnesota.
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Republicans seek Endangered Species Act changes

Republicans seek Endangered Species Act changes

A group of 13 GOP lawmakers representing states across the U.S. planned to release a report Tuesday proposing alterations to the 40-year-old law, which protects imperiled plants and animals.
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How you can track the thousands of crows that roost nightly near downtown Mpls.

How you can track the thousands of crows that roost nightly near downtown Mpls.

Have you every driven up I-35W in south Minneapolis on a winter evening and seen what, at first glance, looks like a dark cloud overhead? It could actually be a murder of crows flying home to their roosts near downtown Minneapolis.
by Tom Crann

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Keystone XL pipeline report creates political headache for Obama

Keystone XL pipeline report creates political headache for Obama

Any expectation that a new State Department report would clarify the Keystone XL pipeline issue went up in smoke in recent days. In the aftermath of a conclusion that downplayed the oil pipeline's potential effects on climate change, the issue has gotten even more politically complicated for the Obama White House.
by Liz Halloran

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Researchers to collar 52 adult moose in NE Minn.

Researchers to collar 52 adult moose in NE Minn.

Researchers plan to collar 52 adult moose in northeastern Minnesota starting this week in the second year of a high-tech study to determine why the iconic species is disappearing from the state.
by The Associated Press

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Can humans and wolves coexist out west?

Can humans and wolves coexist out west?

NPR's Nathan Rott and photographer David Gilkey spent weeks reporting from Montana, where wolves are no longer protected, gathering material for an immersive multimedia experience that explores why these animals stir such deep emotions.

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Minnesota's propane hotline lighting up

The price of propane in the Midwest has skyrocketed this winter because of high demand and changes to the pipeline delivery system.
by Matt Sepic

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Wis. DNR proposes adding 192 waterways to polluted list

There are already more than 700 waters listed as impaired in Wisconsin, including many sections of the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers.
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As walleye population declines, Mille Lacs harvest set at significantly lower level

As walleye population declines, Mille Lacs harvest set at significantly lower level

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced Friday that it is setting the walleye safe harvest level at 60,000 pounds for 2014, with 42,900 pounds set aside for state anglers and 17,100 pounds allocated to eight Chippewa bands that have treaty rights to fish on the lake.
by Jon Collins

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