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The Carbon Conundrum: Confronting Climate Change
While there's some agreement among world leaders on the need to cap carbon, there's plenty of debate over how much to cut and how to do that. A new documentary from America Abroad explores the questions surrounding carbon emissions. It's called, "The Carbon Conundrum: Confronting Climate Change."
The MPCA has issued an air pollution alert for the southern half of the state, including the Twin Cities, Rochester and Marshall, through late Saturday.
Twenty-three public high schools, colleges and universities across Minnesota are receiving grants for projects designed to cut their carbon footprints.
Minnesota is offering another round of workshops to teach tree care workers and others the basics of how to tell destructive tree pests such as the emerald ash border from harmless lookalikes.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an air pollution alert for the southern half of the state, including the Twin Cities, Rochester and Marshall.