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The Minnesota Department of Agriculture and other agencies this week started inspecting commercial vehicles to verify compliance with quarantines in place for Hennepin, Ramsey and Houston Counties.
Some of the country's largest emitters of heat-trapping gases, including businesses that publicly support efforts to curb global warming, don't want the public knowing exactly how much they pollute.
Bright Ideas with Lois Quam
One of Minnesota's most successful business people Lois Quam sits down with Stephen Smith for a conversation as part of MPR News' Bright Ideas program.
The power switch has been flipped on what will become the largest solar farm in Minnesota. The farm will cover the space of two and a-half football fields. And it's being built far from the farm fields, in fact right in downtown Minneapolis.