Minnesota environmental nonprofits see surge in donations
Environmental nonprofits say local issues inspired an increase in donations.
DFL state senators just formed a ‘climate caucus.’ Will they be able to agree on anything?
Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk said Tuesday that his fellow DFLers in the Legislature would try to crack the Republican blockade on much of Gov. Tim Walz’s climate change agenda next year by forming a united front in a “Clean Energy and Climate Caucus.”
Big oil tries, and fails, to block an electric vehicle program in Minnesota
We may have just seen the first skirmish in a war between Big Oil and clean energy in Minnesota. And clean energy won.
St. Paul group airs concerns over Xcel’s energy plan
Members of a local environmentalist group on Monday, Oct. 28, criticized Xcel Energy’s proposed electric power generation plan for the next 15 years, saying the company is not going far enough in its pledge to cut carbon emissions.
Clean energy groups knock Xcel for proposed natural gas plant in Becker
Xcel Energy’s proposed natural gas plant in Becker is part of the city’s economic development strategy, said Becker Mayor Tracy Bertram. But for folks closely watching the rise of carbon levels and the impacts of climate change in Minnesota and beyond, a new greenhouse-gas-emitting plant is not welcome.
St. Paul climate plan looks past clean power to challenge of transportation
Xcel Energy has already pledged to go carbon-free, allowing the city’s plan to focus on other areas to reduce emissions.
‘I’m going to solve climate change’: Central Minnesotans embrace activism
The College of St. Benedict junior was heading back to Minnesota from her home in Madison, Wisconsin. “I told him, ‘I’m an environmental studies major. I’m going to solve climate change,’ ” Stattelman-Scanlan recounted Wednesday during an interview with the St. Cloud Times.
Protesters say Enbridge picks ‘profit over people’
Local activists may not have been able to travel all the way to Calgary for Enbridge Energy’s annual shareholder meeting, but they still tried to make their position known to those who did.
For second year in a row, Enbridge Energy spends the most in Minnesota on lobbying
Enbridge Energy Partners spent just over $11 million lobbying Minnesota state government in 2018 — almost all of it advocating before the Public Utilities Commission — according to data released this week by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board.
Enbridge spent $11 million on Line 3 lobbying in 2018
Enbridge Energy spent more than $11 million on lobbying activities in Minnesota last year, almost entirely on its push for regulatory approval of its controversial Line 3 oil pipeline project.
