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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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Listen to Climate Cast, the MPR News podcast all about our changing climate and its impact in Minnesota and worldwide.

The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?

Climate change has already provoked debate in a U.S. presidential campaign barely begun. An Associated Press journalist draws on decades of climate reporting to offer a retrospective and analysis on global warming and the undying urge to deny.

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17 state AGs favor watershed divide to fight Asian carp

17 state AGs favor watershed divide to fight Asian carp

Michigan's attorney general said he and his counterparts in 16 other states would demand quicker federal action on preventing invasive species such as Asian carp from migrating between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds.
by John Flesher, Associated Press

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Noted environmentalists speak on climate change

Noted environmentalists speak on climate change

Environmental authors and educators Bill McKibben and Paul Hawken speak at the Commonwealth Club about the best ways to combat climate change in an uncertain economy and turbulent political era.

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Legacy council approves Asian carp fight funds

Legacy council approves Asian carp fight funds

The council charged with distributing Legacy Amendment funds for projects that benefit the outdoors voted Tuesday to set aside $3 million for the fight against invasive Asian carp.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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More legacy money goes into water

Asian carp is a priority but water improvement projects also were approved Tuesday to receive Minnesota Legacy Amendment money.
by Dave Peters

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Wet, cool weather a boon to BWCA firefighters

Wet, cool weather a boon to BWCA firefighters

Wet weather is helping firefighters strengthen their grip on the Pagami Creek fire, which has now burned for more than a month in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
by Dan Kraker

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