North Star Blog

Chuck Dayton has been defending Minnesota’s environment longer than many of us have been alive. This is his story. Soon after graduating from a Michigan law school in 1964, Chuck went on a Sierra Club outing in Colorado. He then joined his local...

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission recently approved an Order that will accelerate the electrification of Minnesota’s transportation sector by calling on the state’s electric utilities to support the adoption of electric cars, trucks and...

After months of requests and pressure from environmental and equity groups, Metro Transit announced a plan Monday to transition the entire Twin Cities bus fleet to electric buses, as a way of combating pollution and cutting carbon emissions. The...

We proudly congratulate a new generation of Minnesota leaders on a historic achievement. We look forward to working closely with Governor-Elect Walz, Lieutenant Governor-elect Flanagan, Leader Hortman and the new majority in the Minnesota House, and...

We are deeply disappointed in the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources decision to proceed with issuing permits including the permit to mine. Northern Minnesota’s iconic waterways – from Lake Superior to the Boundary Waters, and everything in...

Clean Energy advocacy groups are disappointed in a decision today by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to approve a petition from Minnesota Power to build a new gas plant across the border in Superior, Wisconsin. The groups intervened in the...

On October 24th, the Zero Waste Task Force and Sierra club volunteers were able to tour Eureka Recycling in Minneapolis – Eureka Recycling is the only organization in Minnesota that specializes in Zero Waste; its mission is to demonstrate that waste...

Five of Minnesota’s leading advocacy organizations today announced an alliance to push for zero-emission transportation solutions statewide. MN350​, Fresh Energy​, Sierra Club North Star Chapter​, TakeAction MN​, and ISAIAH​ have agreed to...

At the end of July, I started in my new role as the Duluth Organizing representative for the Sierra Club. I have lived in Duluth for nearly a decade and come from years of community organizing around local and statewide housing and homelessness...

Today in Bemidji, I joined partners from across our movement to risk arrest in order to escalate our call to stop Line 3. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) failed Minnesotans when they approved the Line 3 pipeline, siding with a...