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Sierra Club praises suspension of New Ulm coal project

In a money-saving move, the New Ulm Public Utilities Commission has voted to indefinitely suspend a controversial project to convert a boiler at the city's steam plant from natural gas to coal.
by Elizabeth Baier

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Officials to brief public on ash borer in SE Minn.

Officials to brief public on ash borer in SE Minn.

State officials will host the first of three open houses in southeastern Minnesota Wednesday to discuss new emerald ash borer infestations.
by Elizabeth Baier

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BWCA wildfire fighting costs $11 million to date

BWCA wildfire fighting costs $11 million to date

The effort to contain the Pagami Creek wildfire burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has cost $11 million to date, according to officials battling the 93,000-acre blaze.
by Dan Kraker

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Hope, famed Internet bear, reported killed by hunter

Hope, famed Internet bear, reported killed by hunter

A researcher who helped make a worldwide star of a Minnesota black bear says he believes the animal is dead.

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Scientists say atlas is wrong on Greenland's glaciers

Scientists say atlas is wrong on Greenland's glaciers

The latest edition of Britain's influential Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World claimed that Greenland lost 15 percent of its permanent ice cover from 1999 to 2011. Scientists, however, say that this is an egregious error. Dr. Mark Serreze joins us to explain.

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Emerald ash borer nears St. Paul's Summit Ave.

Emerald ash borer nears St. Paul's Summit Ave.

Minnesota Department of Agriculture entomologist Mark Abrahamson said the ash trees near the intersection of Dale and Kent in St. Paul may have been infected by emerald ash borers spreading from a nearby neighborhood.
by Dan Olson

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Hennepin County lands $7 million in federal lead-abatement grants

Hennepin County lands $7 million in federal lead-abatement grants

Lead-based paint is thought to be present in tens of thousands of homes dating to the 1940s, mostly in Minneapolis, but also in St. Paul and Ramsey County.
by Dan Olson

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Hunter may have shot bear made famous by Internet

Hunter may have shot bear made famous by Internet

Researchers fear a hunter may have killed a black bear named Hope who became famous when her birth in northeastern Minnesota was broadcast live to a worldwide audience over the Internet.
by Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

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Aurora Alert: Solar storm may trigger northern lights

Powerful X-Class solar flares over the weekend sent blasts solar of energy earthward.

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