Want to learn more about the climate talks happening in Copenhagen, December 7-18?

Watch videos, read tweets and blogs, and look at photos of the events, all from Midwesterners in Denmark this month.

Check out the Will Steger Foundation’s website and RE-AMP’s collection of information.

Interviewed this week on WCCO-TV by Don Shelby about his new partnership with Conservation Minnesota in providing outdoor recreation weather forecasts and climate analysis, meteorologist Paul Douglas said the science supporting the global warming hypothesis is strong, and deplored the politicization of the issue by those with an agenda. (more…)

By Kate Ellis, 1Sky Minnesota organizer, Fresh Energy

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The budget proposal released by President Obama last week is a long and complicated document (140 pages, PDF).  It departs significantly from how things have been done in the past in many regards, so it will take a while for conservation and environmental groups to fully assess its implications on environmental policies.

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While Minnesotans offer their ideas on how to deal with the massive state budget deficit at community hearings throughout the state in the next few weeks, we should take time to reflect on how recent federal actions will impact our Great Outdoors.
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By Ethan Fawley, transportation connections coordinator, Fresh Energy

Yesterday, a coalition of 29 different environmental groups presented a 391-page report to President-elect Obama’s transition team. The Transition to Green (pdf) report highlights priority environmental policy recommendations for Obama’s team to consider as they lay the groundwork for the new Administration. (more…)

Don Shelby reminds Gov. Pawlenty that approving the transmission lines for Big Stone II would contradict the governor’s image as a renewable energy leader.

Watch Don Shelby’s segment, “In the Know,” from June 4, 2008 on WCCO TV.

Watch video from hearings on the Minnesota Clean Cars Act (SF 481 and HF 863) in the Minnesota Senate Business, Industry and Jobs Committee. (more…)

Legislators protest Gates family’s stake in Big Stone II

Check out this posting on Grist by Ted Nace from May 4, 2008.