North Star Blog

Almost one year following the private equity acquisition of Minnesota Power, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) rejected the utility’s request to build a large, costly new gas plant to meet future energy demand and ordered the company...

A personal reflection on joining the Sierra Club as a new volunteer at the Sierra Action Night in September, focusing on the People Not Polluters campaign - how to ensure environmental laws are enforced.

Riverside LLP is proposing a major dairy operation housing almost 19,000 cows. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) decided in June that a full Environmental Impact Statement for West River was unnecessary, despite extensive public comment...

Judge Kimberly Middendorf heard testimony on Tuesday, September 1 from environmental justice organizations and frontline community members who expressed unanimous disappointment with the shortcomings of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)’...

Today, Governor Walz took executive action to protect the Boundary Waters watershed from sulfide ore mining. The Sierra Club North Star Chapter thanks Governor Walz for standing up for water, wilderness, and Minnesotans.

Have you been thinking of buying an Electric Vehicle (EV)? Or have one, and have questions about how to use it? Sierra Club offers free EV Basics workshops to answer your questions. If you'd like to learn more, or share your own knowledge about EVs...