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MPR News is your source for environment news from Minnesota and across the country.

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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Wis. Assembly could vote on mining next week

The state Assembly is set to vote next week on a bill that pits the promise of hundreds of jobs against worries an iron ore mine would despoil a pristine area in northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior.

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AT&T asks appeals court to allow tower near BWCA

AT&T asks appeals court to allow tower near BWCA

AT&T is asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to overturn a judge's decision barring it from building a 450-foot cellphone tower with flashing lights that would be visible within parts of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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How our warm winter is impacting nature

Temperatures shot into the 50s in much of the region today, and so far our January weather has been quite a bit above normal. Gardeners are on the watch for sudden early blooming, and bird watchers are seeing snowy owls well south of where they usually do. The University of Minneesota's Lee Frelich talks with MPR's Tom Crann about the unusual things happening in the natural world because of our warm temperatures.
by Tom Crann

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Red Lake tribe, Wis. group among EPA grant recipients

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced $25,000 grants to each of four recipients in the Great Lakes region, including a Minnesota tribe and a Wisconsin nonprofit organization.

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Northern Plains hit hard by deer-killing disease

Wildlife officials and outfitters say it could take several years for white-tailed deer populations to recover from a devastating disease that has killed thousands of the animals across parts of eastern Montana and elsewhere in the Northern Plains.

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Mount Rainier reopens after fatal ranger shooting

Mount Rainier reopens after fatal ranger shooting

Rangers and volunteers somberly embraced as Mount Rainier National Park reopened to the public Saturday for the first time since an Iraq War veteran shot and killed a park ranger there on New Year's Day.

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