This week’s topics: Air Quality, Agriculture & Food, Cleaner Cars, Electronic Waste, Energy, Global Warming, Green Building, Green Business, Legislative Priorities, Mining, Mississippi River, OHVs, Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Trails, Transportation, Wildlife

Air Quality

• Duluth News Tribune: U.S. Steel pays penalty for air pollution at Keetac

Agriculture & Food

• Minnesota Public Radio: Organic famers meet hoping to tackle their biggest challenges

Cleaner Cars

• Star Tribune: Editorial: Swanson’s right to join EPA lawsuit

Electronic Waste

• Duluth News Tribune: Manufacturers now foot part of the bill for e-waste disposal in Minnesota

Energy

• Bemidji Pioneer: Wind-turbine firm in state’s sights
  (MEP member Will Steger mentioned)

• Minnesota Monitor: Peak Oil: Houston, we have a problem

• Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal: Xcel to build wind farm near Austin

• Minnesota Public Radio: Governor Pawlenty proposes a renewable energy plan
  (MEP member group Institute for Local Self-Reliance mentioned)

• Minnesota Public Radio: Lawmakers try to lure world’s largest wind turbine maker

• Minnesota Public Radio: Power line technology allows for bigger loads

• Pioneer Press: Plan offers clean-energy loans

• Star Tribune: Local ownership urged for energy projects

• Star Tribune: Pawlenty announces clean energy plan
  (MEP member group Institute for Local Self-Reliance mentioned)

• WCCO: MN Lawmakers Hope To Lure Danish Wind Research

Global Warming

• Minnesota Monitor: Climate-change impact hearings hit the road

• MinnPost: Global warming’s pressing moral question

Green Building

• WCCO: Project Little Green House Wins National Award

Green Business

• Pioneer Press: Blue: It’s the new green

Legislative Priorities

• Alexandria Echo Press: Environmental group sets legislative priorities

• Austin Daily Herald: Lawmakers hope to repeat environment success of ‘07
  (MEP member group Izaak Walton League mentioned)

• Duluth News Tribune: State bonding goes green

• Rochester Post-Bulletin: Ikes, legislators set meeting to discuss conservation
  (MEP member group Izaak Walton League mentioned)

Mining

• Mesabi Daily News: Area needs stronger words of support for mining projects from Sen.Klobuchar
  (MEP member group Sierra Club mentioned)

• Mesabi Daily News: Klobuchar wants to see more details on major Iron Range mining projects

• Timberjay Newspapers: Protesters cite mining concerns

Mississippi River

• New York Times: St. Paul Stops a Waterfront Developer From Crossing the Mississippi

Off-Highway Vehicles

• Bemidji Pioneer: DNR fields concerns: Proposal would mark state forest land as ‘limited’
  (MEP member groups MCEA, Sierra Club, Audubon Society mentioned)

Outdoor Recreation

• MinnPost: At age 25, Pheasants Forever is celebrating big this weekend

• Star Tribune: Dennis Anderson: Wildlife groups can’t save the world alone
  (MEP member groups The Nature Conservancy and Izaak Walton League mentioned)

Parks & Trails

• Austin Daily Herald: Work begins at Lake Louise

Transportation

• MinnPost: Central Corridor light rail line faces critical moment

• Minnesota Public Radio: The battle over transportation funding

• Minnesota Public Radio: Fixing bridges not Minnesota’s only transportation problem

• Pioneer Press: Editorial: Solving problems in the here and now

• Rochester Post-Bulletin: Editorial: Gasoline tax is likely option for transportation funding

• Star Tribune: Editorial: Impasse is skewing bonding priorities

• Star Tribune: Peter Bell: New transit line can’t be all things to all people

• West Central Tribune: Governor focuses on bridges in bonding bill

Wildlife

• Minnesota Public Radio: Solo the bear and her cubs moved to Michigan

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