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Sierra Club Applauds Biden for Move to Protect Boundary Waters
January 26, 2023
Today, the Biden Administration announced a Secretarial order for a 20-year mineral withdrawal that will protect Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The orders come after a comprehensive scientific review that found that sulfide-ore...
Major investments in wind, solar and battery storage key features of final Minnesota Power long-range energy plan approved Tuesday
November 10, 2022
The newly approved long-range energy plan for Minnesota’s second largest public utility company reflects an exciting agreement reached between Minnesota Power, Clean Energy Organizations, labor unions, industrial customers, and the Boswell coal...
Enbridge Hit With Criminal Charges Over Line 3 Aquifer Breach
October 17, 2022
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today that his office filed criminal charges against Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline company behind the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, over an aquifer breach that happened during construction of the...
IRA’s historic investments in renewable energy bolster case against MN Power’s proposed Nemadji Trail Energy Center
August 29, 2022
In their reply comment filed Monday, Clean Energy Organizations (CEOs) emphasized the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as the latest in a long list of reasons the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission should cancel Minnesota Power’s plan to build the...
Sierra Club Applauds the US Forest Service’s Draft Environmental Assessment for the Boundary Waters
June 23, 2022
We applaud the US Forest Service for using a science-based approach to come to today’s draft environmental assessment, recommending a 20-year mineral withdrawal from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
MN Power should cancel the Nemadji Trail Energy Center, plan for earlier retirement of coal plants
May 2, 2022
First of its kind study in Minnesota details deadly and disproportionate impacts of burning fossil fuel - Independent experts dug into the data Minnesota Power presented to support its latest long-term energy plan and found that the Nemadji Trail...
28 Community Organizations Reject Minnesota Department of Transportation’s “Rethinking I-94” Planning Process
October 27, 2021
28 Minneapolis and Saint Paul community organizations released a letter to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) today regarding its Rethinking I-94 project. The letter faults MnDOT’s environmental review process, required by the...
Unprofitable Coal Creek Sale Will Cost Minnesotans Millions
July 30, 2021
Great Rivers Energy (GRE) was successful in its sale of the Coal Creek power plant to Rainbow Energy in a process that lacked transparency and engagement. Sierra Club and allies have raised concerns about the financial harm this decision would have...
Minnesota Is Officially The First Clean Car State in the Midwest
July 26, 2021
Today, Governor Walz announced that Minnesota’s clean car standards have been filed in the state register, marking the end of the rulemaking process and making Minnesota the 15th clean car state in the nation, in addition to the District of Columbia...
Clean Water Organizations Launch “Move on from PolyMet” Petition Campaign
July 19, 2021
The Sierra Club North Star Chapter is proud to join our partners at the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Duluth for Clean Water in a new campaign calling on Governor Walz to “Move on from PolyMet.” With the 2018 PolyMet Permit to Mine...