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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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Nationally, gray wolves face uncertain future

After devoting four decades and tens of millions of dollars to saving the gray wolf, the federal government wants to get out of the wolf-protection business.

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Minn. plans hunting season as gray wolves come off endangered list

Minn. plans hunting season as gray wolves come off endangered list

The Obama administration is taking gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region off the federal endangered species list. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources already is laying plans for a hunting season on wolves.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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How does fracking affect Minnesota?

How does fracking affect Minnesota?

One bright spot in the U.S. economy is the oil drilling industry that has developed around hydraulic fracture mining, or fracking. Reports suggest the drilling technique is harming the environment. In fact, a recent Draft EPA report suggests the process may be contaminating ground water. How is this booming industry affecting our natural resources? And how is Minnesota involved in the controversy?

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Bears in the city a more common occurrence

It is becoming more common to see bears in urban areas, said Susan Morse, who spoke with MPR about bears following an incident in which police shot and killed a black bear that wandered into a neighborhood near downtown St. Paul.
by Tom Crann

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Bear killed by police near downtown St. Paul

Police have shot and killed a bear that wandered into a neighborhood near downtown St. Paul. Police received at least two calls about bear sightings in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood just before 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

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Central Minnesota chooses a future

Central Minnesota chooses a future

About 200 central Minnesota residents are in the midst of a two-year effort sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to plan a vision of what central Minnesota should look like by 2035.
by Dave Peters

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