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MPR News is your source for environment news from Minnesota and across the country.

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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Water treatment a central question in PolyMet's environmental study

Water treatment a central question in PolyMet's environmental study

A proposed copper-nickel mining operation in northeast Minnesota would need long-term water treatment to ensure potentially toxic rock won't pollute area waterways, according to an environmental review released Friday.
by Elizabeth Dunbar and Dan Kraker

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General Mills facing two lawsuits over vapor hazard

General Mills facing two lawsuits over vapor hazard

General Mills faces at least lawsuits that allege residents in a Minneapolis neighborhood suffer property damage due to chemical contamination that has migrated from a former research site into the ground beneath their homes.
by Lorna Benson

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Environmental review for PolyMet Mine released

Environmental review for PolyMet Mine released

PolyMet has spent years working to persuade state officials that an open pit copper-nickel mine would be safe for the state's Iron Range.

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Regulators: Xcel must study Sherco coal-fired power plant retirement

Regulators: Xcel must study Sherco coal-fired power plant retirement

Xcel Energy must take a detailed look at the future of its largest coal-fired power plant next year and study how soon its two oldest units could be retired, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission said Thursday.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Climate change: What we know, what we're doing

Climate change: What we know, what we're doing

We highlight not only how our lives are affected by climate change, but what people are doing about it.
by John Abraham

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PolyMet's copper-nickel mine rekindles decades-old environmental debate

PolyMet's copper-nickel mine rekindles decades-old environmental debate

The battle over copper-nickel mining has its roots in a 1948 discovery by Fred Childers, of Ely. He discovered mineralized rock while blasting to build a Forest Service road.
by Dan Kraker

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American RadioWorks documentary, Power and Smoke: A Nation Built on Coal

American RadioWorks documentary, Power and Smoke: A Nation Built on Coal

The production of electricity in America pumps out more greenhouse gases than all of our cars, trucks, planes, and ships combined, and half of our electricity comes from burning coal. The American RadioWorks documentary unit presents this 2011 documentary, "Power and Smoke: A Nation Built on Coal."
by Catherine Winter

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Water fight over Minn. pig farm goes to court

Neighbors trying to stop a large hog feedlot from being built in central Minnesota are now challenging the state's decision to let the operation draw millions of gallons of groundwater.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Eurasian ruffe DNA found in southern Lake Michigan

Genetic material from an invasive fish called the Eurasian ruffe has been found in southern Lake Michigan for the first time, raising the possibility that it could migrate into the Mississippi River watershed.

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Slashing fossil fuel consumption comes with a price

People have been dreaming about clean energy for decades. And for decades, the world has relied overwhelmingly on the much cheaper fossil fuels. Coal, oil and natural gas made up 82 percent of total energy consumed 25 years ago, and they still make up 82 percent of the world's energy diet today.

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