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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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Stopping water contamination requires new message

Stopping water contamination requires new message

Don't flush your old prescription drugs. They pollute the state's waters. Officials and environmental leaders concede the public has heard mixed messages over the years about what to do with pharmaceuticals and other compounds that can contaminate lakes and rivers.
by Dan Gunderson

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Winona Co. frac sand permit challenged

A group of Winona County residents is challenging the county board's decision to approve a frac sand mine.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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No plans to end coal-fired power at Sherco

No plans to end coal-fired power at Sherco

Xcel Energy sees no end to the burning of coal at its Sherco power plant in Becker in central Minnesota.
by Conrad Wilson

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White House has coal country on the defensive

After several years of taking a beating from the poor economy, new pollution rules and a flood of cheap natural gas, the coal industry was on the rebound this year as mining projects moved forward in the Western U.S. and demand for the fuel began to rise, especially in Asia.

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Businesses pitch in to slow White Bear Lake's plunging waterline

Businesses pitch in to slow White Bear Lake's plunging waterline

Water levels in White Bear Lake have been dropping over the past decade. Now, businesses in the community are starting an effort to keep levels from declining more.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Calif.'s Sierra a 'living lab' for climate change

Calif.'s Sierra a 'living lab' for climate change

As indicators point toward a warming climate, scientists across 4 million acres of federally protected land are noting changes affecting everything from the massive trees that can grow to more than two dozen feet across to the tiny, hamsterlike pika. But what the changes mean and whether humans should do anything to intervene are sources of disagreement among land managers.

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Mpls. holds creek/lake cleanup event Sunday

More than a thousand volunteers are expected to join an effort to clean up Minnehaha Creek and several lakes in Minneapolis on Sunday.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Minn. gets federal money for bat disease

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is giving money to Minnesota and other Midwestern states to monitor bat populations for white-nose disease, which is caused by a fungus and has wiped out bat populations in parts of the eastern United States.
by Dan Gunderson

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St. Cloud residents warned of rabid skunks

Residents in St. Cloud are warned that three rabid skunks have been found in the south side of the city in the past three weeks.
by Sasha Aslanian

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