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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

Getting to Green is an MPR News series that shares stories about Minnesota’s clean energy transition, including what needs to be done to get there.

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Biden announces a plan in Glasgow to help poorer countries with climate change

Biden announces a plan in Glasgow to help poorer countries with climate change

In a speech to the U.N. climate summit on Monday, President Joe Biden laid out his strategy for reaching goals to curb emissions — and a plan to help developing countries adapt to climate change.
by Brian Naylor

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Biden says he worries that cutting oil production too fast will hurt working people

Biden says he worries that cutting oil production too fast will hurt working people

"On the surface it seems like an irony," Biden said of calling on major producers to pump more oil even as he heads to the climate summit. "But the truth of the matter is ... everyone knows that idea that we're going to be able to move to renewable energy overnight ... it's just not rational."
by Tamara Keith

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G-20 make mild pledges on climate neutrality, coal financing

G-20 make mild pledges on climate neutrality, coal financing

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed Sunday to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries and made a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a Rome summit before a much larger U.N. climate conference.
by The Associated Press

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Minnesota moves closer to completing St. Louis River restoration

Minnesota moves closer to completing St. Louis River restoration

This month the Minnesota DNR completed one of its largest-ever habitat restoration projects, a three-year, $18 million project restoring 230 acres of coastal wetland habitat in the St. Louis River estuary near Duluth.
by Dan Kraker

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Northern lights this weekend? Yes, maybe

Northern lights this weekend? Yes, maybe

A strong geomagnetic storm will deliver the basic ingredients to produce aurora borealis sightings across Minnesota Saturday and Sunday. But don’t grab your camera just yet.
by MPR News Staff

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G-20 leaders to tackle energy prices, other economic woes

G-20 leaders to tackle energy prices, other economic woes

The presidents and prime ministers representing 80 percent of the global economy will confront a recovery hampered by an energy crunch that's spurring higher fuel and utility prices, new COVID-19 outbreaks and logjams in supply chains. President Joe Biden has said he wants to press other leaders on high oil prices.
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Hunters want more 'urgency' in state's CWD response

Hunters want more 'urgency' in state's CWD response

It's been nearly 20 years since the first case of chronic wasting disease was identified in a farm-raised elk in Minnesota. The disease that afflicts species in the deer family is getting more attention this year after it was found in a herd of captive white-tailed deer near Bemidji and is prompting calls for more aggressive action.
by Dan Gunderson

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Minneapolis sued over Upper Harbor Terminal project

Minneapolis sued over Upper Harbor Terminal project

A group of Minneapolis residents with an environmental justice group filed a lawsuit over the city’s plans to develop the Mississippi River site, north of downtown. The lawsuit alleges that the city failed to properly study the plan’s environmental impact.
by Ava Ewald

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