Press Releases

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on a controversial proposal, backed by the Trump Administration, that would allow toxic sulfide mining in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota.

On Thursday January 15, Minnesota's Public Utilities Commission voted to allow the burning of trees or trash for electricity to be called carbon free. The Sierra Club North Star Chapter issued the following statement in response.

The Sierra Club speaks out in defense of the freedoms we all cherish and the safety we all expect, rejecting violence, fear and danger. We condemn ICE's senseless killing of Renee Nicole Good and call for accountability and an end to ICE actions...

Contact:Megan Wittman, megan.wittman@sierraclub.orgSUPERIOR, Wis. — Today, in a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission filing by Minnesota Power, the company announced that it will withdraw from the proposed Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas...

Today, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved plans for ALLETE, the publicly traded parent company of Minnesota Power, to be sold to private equity investors, despite evidence showing that the transaction is likely to result in...

Today, elected officials and community members gathered outside of Minnesota Power’s headquarters to call on the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to reject the utility’s private equity acquisition.

Yesterday, the Trump Administration moved forward a controversial mining proposal that directly threatens the future of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Today, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) released her report recommending that the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) reject the proposed private equity buyout of ALLETE, Inc., parent company of Minnesota Power, a Duluth-based regulated...

The North Star Chapter issued the following statement in response to the political shooting of two state legislators and their spouses.

On June 11, Trump Administration officials announced on X that they will start the process of reversing a 20-year moratorium on mining on Superior National Forest land, surrounding and within the Boundary Waters’ watershed.