News for Monday, December 17
by JenToday’s Topics: Agriculture & Food, Development, Energy, Global Warming, Great Lakes, Great Outdoors & Heritage Amendment, Green Business, Green Holidays, Health, Parks & Trails, People, Solid Waste, Toxics, Transportation, Water
Agriculture & Food
- Faribault Daily News: Do you think farm subsidies are excessive?
- Star Tribune: Senate passes $286 billion farm bill expanding subsidies for growers and food stamps
Development
- Duluth News Tribune: Two Harbors to learn fate of Cave appeal
Energy
- Star Tribune: Xcel ready to pare back on fossil fuel (MEP member group Izaak Walton League mentioned)
- Duluth News Tribune: Excelsior appeals PUC ruling on power sales to Xcel
- In-Forum: Pawlenty appears in PSA on cable
- Star Tribune: Energy companies drill more wells from single locations to reduce environmental damage
- West Central Tribune: Competitive spirit at work as Youth Energy Summit teams develop clean energy projects
- Winona Daily News: Trempealeau County to pass restrictive wind turbine ordinance
Global Warming
- In-Forum: Plowing more acres isn’t without cost
- Minnesota Public Radio: Pawlenty: Gore is too partisan on global warming
- Star Tribune: UN conference to approve forest conservation as part of climate plan
Great Lakes
- Minnesota Public Radio: Mayors tell candidates to make the Great Lakes a priority
Great Outdoors & Heritage Amendment
Green Business
- Star Tribune: Ecolab’s Apex: Rethinking dishwashers
Green Holidays
- Fergus Falls Daily Journal: Outpost sells trees, conservation
Health
- Star Tribune: Biomonitoring: Has pollution spread to body?
Parks & Trails
- Outdoor News: DNR seeks Vermilion park comments; funding source
- Rosemount Town Pages: Input sought on state park plan
People
- Duluth News Tribune: Duluth couple has been champions of the outdoors for nearly 50 years (MEP member organization Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy mentioned)
- DL-Online: Audubon couple are county’s ‘Conservationists of the Year’
Solid Waste
Toxics
- Minnesota Public Radio: 3M releases preliminary results of PFBA study
- Star Tribune: Mercury in mascara? New Minnesota law bans the toxic substance from beauty products
Transportation
- St. Cloud Times: Along Northstar route, hopes of economic boom run high
Water
- Alexandria Echo Press: Pollution standards for sewage treatment plants not up to par, says environment groups (MEP member group Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy quoted)
- Mankato Free Press: Cities ponder lawsuit over pollution law
- Star Tribune: Watershed district now sees storm water as a liquid asset
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