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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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40 years on, environmental agreement eludes Earth Day

40 years on, environmental agreement eludes Earth Day

Forty years ago, the U.S. was divided over the Vietnam War, but we seemed to be able to agree on one thing -- the need for better environmental protection. Today, forty years later, there's little agreement on the main environmental issues we face.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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Outdoor groups unhappy with tribes' claim for fishing, hunting rights

Outdoor groups unhappy with tribes' claim for fishing, hunting rights

Some Minnesota outdoor groups are expressing frustration with two Ojibwe Indian bands in northern Minnesota that plan to reassert hunting and fishing rights they believe are protected by federal treaties from the 1800s.
by Tom Robertson

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Is your contractor certified by the EPA in lead safety techniques?

Is your contractor certified by the EPA in lead safety techniques?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set a deadline for painters, electricians, general contractors and anyone else who might disturb lead-based paint during a job to get trained in techniques to keep themselves and others safe from lead chips and dust. The techniques are required for any home or other building built before 1978.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Volcanic ash delays wounded troop flights

Volcanic ash delays wounded troop flights

The Pentagon said Monday that medical evacuation flights out of Iraq and Afghanistan are taking eight hours longer because of the cloud of volcanic ash hanging over Europe.

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Sherpa team plans to clean Everest's death zone

Sherpa team plans to clean Everest's death zone

A team of 20 Sherpa mountaineers plans to remove bodies of climbers who died in Mount Everest's "death zone," a treacherous stretch that has claimed some 300 lives since 1953, the team leader said Monday.

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Fish dump threatens to ignite tensions over tribal fishing

Several hundred walleye carcasses were dumped in a field near Mille Lacs Lake in central Minnesota. A neighbor found the heap of rotting fish, including hundreds of filleted walleyes and several whole northern pike, on Tuesday afternoon.
by Madeleine Baran

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