Today’s topics: Department of Natural Resources, Energy, Funding, Great Lakes, Great Outdoors, Mining, Off-Highway Vehicles, Solid Waste, Transportation, and Water.

Department of Natural Resources

• Star Tribune: Meet the new DNR commissioner
  (MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is quoted in the Reaction to Holsten sidebar)

Energy

• Minnesota Public Radio: It’s the economy vs. the environment at hearing for Iron Range power plant
  (MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is quoted)
• Star Tribune: Ash landfill proposal moves forward
• Austin Daily Herald: Wind farm nears final approval
• Duluth News Tribune: Excelsior Energy runs into opposition
• Hibbing Daily Tribune: Citizens voice opinions on gasification plant

Funding

• East Central Minnesota Post Review: Nelson to chair committee pursuing environmental preservation

Great Lakes

• Star Tribune Editorial: Coast Guard is right to drop gunnery drills
• Bemidji Pioneer Editorial: Taking away bullets from Coast Guard

Great Outdoors

• Pioneer Press: Land deal helps link state park to trail
  (MEP member group Parks and Trails Council of Minnesota is featured.  Member group the Conservation Fund is mentioned)
• Pioneer Press: Land will become property of Forest Service
  (MEP member groups Trust for Public Land and Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness are mentioned)
• Star Tribune: Saloon at BWCA sold to two nonprofit groups
  (MEP member groups Trust for Public Land and Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness are mentioned)
• Brainerd Dispatch: Land acquisition secures link connecting trail, park
  (MEP member group Parks and Trails Council of Minnesota is quoted)
• Duluth News Tribune Opinion: Conservation groups seek to protect BWCAW from new snowmobile trail
  (The author is with MEP member group Izaak Walton League – Midwest Office)

Mining

• Duluth News Tribune: Mine’s environmental study may not be done in 2007
  (MEP member group Sierra Club is mentioned)
• Star Tribune: Land swap approval advances plan for taconite-steel mill
• Duluth News Tribune: Group sues over logging near wetlands project

Off-Highway Vehicles

• Minnesota Public Radio: Mississippi Headwaters State Forest is latest battleground over ATV use
• Grand Forks Herald Opinion: Canoeists don’t want to share anything

Solid Waste

• Albert Lea Tribune Opinion: Are the Christmas gifts you give recyclable?

Transportation

• Pioneer Press Opinion: All these transportation pieces connect in a bigger whole

Water

• St. Cloud Times: Environmental obstacles could tie up plant’s upgrade
  (MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is quoted)
• AgriNews: Farmer hopes to retain nutrients, improve water quality

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