Today’s topics: Development, Energy, Forests, Funding, Lake Superior, Mississippi River, Susperfund Site?, Transportation, and Water.  

Development

• Minnesota Public Radio: Developer submits plans for controversial St. Paul project
  (MEP member group Friends of the Mississippi River is quoted)
• Pioneer Press: Big debate begins on ‘Bridges’ project
  (MEP member group Friends of the Mississippi River is quoted)
• Star Tribune: Big riverfront plan submitted in St. Paul

Energy

• Fargo Forum Opinion: Big Stone II wrong project, wrong time, old technology
  (The authors are with MEP member groups Clean Water Action Alliance, Fresh Energy, Izaak Walton League and Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy)
• Minnesota Public Radio: Conservationists push a more efficient light bulb
  (MEP member group Center for Energy and Environment is quoted)
• Marshall Independent: Big Stone II: the impact of emissions
  (MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is quoted)
• Star Tribune: Small tritium spill at Prairie Island highlights larger problem
• Star Tribune: Motorists get pumped up over ethanol
• Crookston Daily Times Editorial: What will city pay to be more energy efficient?
• Fargo Forum: Energy proposal on ballot
• Hibbing Daily Tribune: Coal-fed gasification plant fires up controversy

Forests

• Duluth News Tribune Opinion: Conservationists question forest’s plan for logging
  (The author is with MEP member group Sierra Club)
• Outdoor News: Group questions state forest certified status
  (MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is quoted)

Funding

• Outdoor News: New LCCMR nearly formed

Lake Superior

• Cook County News Herald: Commercial fishermen plan to sue the DNR

Mississippi River

• Associated Press: Final go-ahead given for Upper Mississippi conservation changes

Superfund Site?

• International Falls Daily Journal: VNP pursuing charges for site contamination
  

Transportation

• Star Tribune: Northstar rail gets another big OK
• St. Cloud Times: Metro Bus adjusts to budget demands

Water

• Brainerd Dispatch: Dam proposals presented
• Duluth News Tribune: Using summer for science
• New Ulm Journal: MPCA awards water project funds
• Cook County News Herald: Cascade River Association formed
  

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