North Star Blog

Today, the Trump Administration directly threatened the future of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, one of America’s iconic wilderness areas.

It’s no surprise air pollution is a major threat to our health and the environment, and our vehicles are a major contributor to this problem. In fact, more than 80% of people living in urban areas are exposed to air quality levels that exceed WHO...

The Sierra Club North Star Chapter endorsed in 63 state races and environmental champions won in 56 of them! See our updated list of endorsements.  In 2018 we ran our biggest political program to date - launching SierraVotes - and it paid off...

We can use equity in a sentence… “Here at___we strive to achieve equity for all citizens”, but what does that mean? What does it weigh? How can we as people go about defining fairness in relatively complex world? The question of equity is at the...

Finally, some good news! The PolyMet rider was removed from the federal defense spending bill. Sierra Club activists (that’s you!) spoke up alongside numerous partner organizations to fight back against PolyMet's sweetheart deal to trade public...

Recently, Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission made a critical decision about the direction that this pipeline fight would take. They were responsible for deciding whether a certificate of need and route permit would be issued to Enbridge....

It is not too late to reduce plastic pollution in our oceans and ultimately, produce less waste for the planet. One action step that is so simple is skipping the straw.

You may be hearing many of the Minnesota-based environmental organizations throwing around the term IRP recently. Every 2-3 years, Xcel submits an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) -- the regulator for monopoly...

It’s been a busy spring. We’ve survived another challenging legislative session, a busy political convention season and ongoing dysfunction in our nation’s capitol. But the hard part is yet to come. This fall, Minnesotans will head to the polls for...

On June 27th the United States Supreme Court issued its long awaited ruling in the case Janus v. AFSCME. This decision, long expected, is an unfortunate win for anti-worker interest groups in their ongoing fight to undermine the power of working...