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Press Release: Minnesota Sierra Club Responds to PolyMet Permit Decision
November 1, 2018
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...
Press Release: PUC Approves Gas Plant, Fails To Protect Ratepayers And Climate
October 30, 2018
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...
Press Release: Trump Administration Opens Door to Sulfide Mining Near Boundary Waters
September 6, 2018
Today, the Trump Administration directly threatened the future of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, one of America’s iconic wilderness areas.