Environmental News

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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Climate Cast

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

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.
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.
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.