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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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Sand mining company wins round in Wabasha: No environmental review

Sand mining company wins round in Wabasha: No environmental review

The Wabasha City Council on Monday decided against requiring an environmental review of a company that wants to open a silica sand transportation facility in the city.
by Elizabeth Baier

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Minn. court affirms wild rice protection

The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Monday dismissing a challenge to the state's water quality standard protecting wild rice.
by Dan Kraker

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Panel weighs cleanup grant for Surly site

A Metropolitan Council committee will consider on Monday whether to recommend a half-million-dollar grant to clean up a polluted industrial site where the Surly Brewing Co. wants to build a new facility.
by Curtis Gilbert

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EPA tightens standards for soot pollution

In its first major regulation since the election, the Obama administration on Friday imposed a new air quality standard that reduces by 20 percent the maximum amount of soot released into the air from smokestacks, diesel trucks and other sources of pollution.

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Minn. DNR closing NE wolf zone Saturday

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is closing the northeast wolf hunting and trapping zone.

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Poll: Science doubters admit world is warming

Poll: Science doubters admit world is warming

Belief and worry about climate change are inching up among Americans in general, but concern is growing faster among people who don't often trust scientists on the environment.

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Lilydale Park fans clash over upcoming makeover

Lilydale Park fans clash over upcoming makeover

The St. Paul Parks and Recreation Department is using Legacy Amendment money to prepare to build a new road and picnic shelter in Lilydale Park, and encountering a controversy as it does so.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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DNR closing east-central wolf zone Friday

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is closing the state's smallest wolf hunting and trapping zone effective Friday evening.

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Mississippi River level still expected to drop

Mississippi River level still expected to drop

Water levels on the drought-plagued Mississippi River are expected to keep dropping over the next several weeks, according to a new forecast that comes amid worries that barge traffic soon could be squeezed along a key stretch of the vital shipping corridor.

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Minn. DNR seeks 'concern' status for moose

Minn. DNR seeks 'concern' status for moose

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is proposing to list the state's iconic moose as a "species of concern," the lowest initial designation on a list of animals and plants seen as at risk of disappearing from the state.

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