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This week’s head-scratcher comes in the form of SF1567/HF2095, Environmental permits efficiency and environmental review requirements modified. Apparently, last session’s kumbaya around this issue is just a distant memory and we’re back for Round Two. Continue reading
This week on the Line Molly Pederson, Government Affairs Director You’re back, and so is the Line! Just in case you didn’t catch us last year, the Line is a light, 100% Minnesotan look at all things environment at the … Continue reading
The action this week is around the House and Senate Omnibus Environment bills, so we’re taking this opportunity to go all David Letterman on you. Continue reading
The Line is Conservation Minnesota’s new, lighter, 100% Minnesotan approach to sharing our thoughts on what’s happening at the state legislature. The Line is more than just a run down of bills. We’ll give a weekly “You Betcha!” to one … Continue reading
You’re BAAAACK!! You’re just in time for our revolt. The one we’re staging against bill names and descriptions that are so vague, so non-descript that no normal, sane human with a life outside the capitol could possibly know what they do. This week, we’re taking the fairly benign looking House and Senate calendars and (hopefully) turning it into something that actual people can understand. Continue reading
This week’s shout out goes to Sen. Katie Sieben and Rep. Melissa Hortman for introducing the Minnesota Recycling Refund Act on Tuesday. We could go on and on (and on) talking about the new jobs it creates, the 80% (at least) beverage container recycling rate we’ll achieve, and the $90 million in annual revenue you all could use right about now. But instead, we’ll tell you to check out recyclingrefund.org and find out about all that, and more. Continue reading
We begin this week by calling out a MAJOR victory….106 House members, led by Rep. Denny McNamara, opposed logging state parks as a way of addressing the budget deficit. WOOHOO!!! So, how did we win on this and still get creamed everywhere else in the budget? Continue reading
The Line is Conservation Minnesota’s new, lighter, 100% Minnesotan approach to sharing our thoughts on what’s happening at the state legislature. Continue reading
The Line is Conservation Minnesota’s new, lighter, 100% Minnesotan approach to sharing our thoughts on what’s happening at the state legislature. Continue reading
The Line is Conservation Minnesota’s new, lighter, 100% Minnesotan approach to sharing our thoughts on what’s happening at the state legislature. Continue reading
The environment didn’t fare well overall in the 2012 legislative session. While some anti-environment bills were modified and weakened to limit their impact on long-established environmental law, it was clear that there was a full-frontal assault on many state agency regulations, rules … Continue reading
Music, Outdoors, Cultural events from the August, 2011 Rochester Legacy Weekend in Rochester, Minnesota Continue reading
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