Today’s topics: Development, Energy, Great Lakes, Non-Native Invasive Species, Off-Highway Vehicles, Transportation, Water, Wetlands, and Wildlife.

Development

• Mankato Free Press: Population booming in Le Sueur County
• Lake County News Chronicle: Waterfront issues head to arbitration

Energy

• Star Tribune: Panel leading charge against a warmer state
  (MEP member groups Fresh Energy and Sierra Club North Star Chapter are quoted)
• Albert Lea Tribune: Coleman touts bio benefits of energy bill
• Associated Press: Group brainstorms greenhouse gas reductions
• Bemidji Pioneer Editorial: Renewable energy plan is a priority
• Bemidji Pioneer: Oberstar unveils his global warming agenda
• Mankato Free Press: Walz working for wind energy
• Red Wing Republican Eagle: Wind farm gets state approval
• Rochester Post Bulletin: Kenyon wind project gets go-ahead

Great Lakes

• KARE: Mystery corrosion threatens Duluth Harbor

Non-Native Invasive Species

• Alexandria Echo Press: Emerald ash borer threat leads to firewood restrictions

Off-Highway Vehicles

• Cook County News Herald: County sends back ATV ordinance

Transportation

• Minnesota Public Radio: Seeking to put light rail project on track
• Annandale Advocate: Legislators dislike transportation veto
• Annandale Advocate Opinion: Funding is long overdue
  (The author is State Senator Dille)

Water

• Alexandria Echo Press: Here’s how to improve water quality of lakes

Wetlands

• Outdoor News: Groups react to Clean Water Act ‘guidance’
  (MEP member group National Wildlife Federation is quoted)
• Outdoor News: Session resolves some ditch-buffer issues; more to come
  (MEP member group Fish and Wildlife Legislative Alliance is quoted)

Wildlife

• KARE: Twin Cities: Where man and nature co-exist
  (MEP member group Audubon Minnesota is featured)
• WCCO: First Bees, Now Birds: Where Did They Go?
  (MEP member group Audubon Minnesota is featured)
• Minnesota Public Radio: Birds of a feather disappearing together
  (MEP member group Audubon Minnesota is featured)
• Star Tribune: Tick, tick, tick: Lyme is booming
  

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