Today’s topics: Development, Energy, Executive Branch Changes, Food Scraps, Great Lakes, Lead, Mining, Trails, Transportation, and Water.

Development

• Detroit Lakes Tribune: New DL panel may help with lake zoning
• Detroit Lakes Tribune Editorial: Better lakeshore review process will benefit DL

Energy

• Star Tribune Editorial: A bold, balanced initiative on energy
  (MEP member group Izaak Walton League – Midwest Office is quoted)
• Star Tribune: Students, staff rally behind effort to conserve energy
• Pioneer Press: Iron Range plant fought
• Albert Lea Tribune: District 241 OKs energy savings projects
• Bemidji Pioneer Editorial: Momentum builds for an energy policy
• Crookston Times Opinion: Plenty on the Minnesota Chamber’s legislative agenda
• Mesabi Daily News: Would coal gasification project fit in Pawlenty plan?
• New Ulm Journal: New Ulm PUC reveals long-term power plans

Executive Branch Changes

• Minnesota Public Radio: Pawlenty names new DNR head, accepts chief of staff resignation
  (MEP member group Minnesota Conservation Federation is quoted)
• Pioneer Press: Three agencies get new leaders
  (MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is quoted)
• Star Tribune: Pawlenty’s inner circle shifts in high- and low-profile ways
• Pioneer Press: Next DNR commissioner needs to challenge the status quo
• Forum Newspapers: Holsten named DNR commissioner

Food Waste

• Pioneer Press: After lunch, hogs munch

Great Lakes

• Minnesota Public Radio: Coast Guard calls off live fire training plan on Great Lakes
• Star Tribune: Coast Guard to rethink plan to use the Great Lakes for target practice
• Duluth News Tribune: Cease fire?
• Duluth News Tribune Editorial: Coast Guard shows it knows when to hold ‘em

Lead

• Star Tribune: Lead shot increasingly under fire
• Pioneer Press: Additional lead shot restrictions ‘inevitable,’ new report says

Mining

• Star Tribune: Copper mine would provide jobs, but at a cost to environment
  (MEP member groups Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Sierra Club are quoted)
• Minnesota Public Radio: Steel plant proceeds slowly
• Mesabi Daily News: Non-ferrous initiative starts

Trails

• New Ulm Journal: Regional river trail in the works

Transportation

• Pioneer Press Editorial: Noting progress on light rail for Central Corridor

Water

• Minnesota Public Radio: Drought still affects Minnesota lakes and streams

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