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Minnesota Power’s Private Equity Acquisition Will Increase Costs for Minnesotans, Puts Clean Energy Progress at Risk

DULUTH, Minn. – 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.…

As Wisconsinites Struggle to Afford Utility Bills, Trump Sells Out Public Lands and Public Health to Costly Coal

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Today, the Trump administration announced its “Coal Day 2.0” agenda,  which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for coal mining leases and extending…

Minnesota PUC Weighs Decision on BlackRock’s $6.2B Acquisition of Minnesota Power

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Today, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) held its final hearing on the proposed private equity acquisition of Minnesota Power. Under the proposal, ALLETE, the…

We Energies, WPS are Failing the Clean Energy Transition in Sierra Club’s Annual Utility Report

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Today, the Sierra Club released its annual Dirty Truth Report, which grades 75 utilities across the country on their plans to retire coal plants by 2030, not build new gas…

Duluth Rally Urges PUC to Block BlackRock’s $6.2B Acquisition of Minnesota Power

DULUTH, Minn. – 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…

Protect Minnesotans and the environment, reject the BlackRock buyout of Minnesota Power

DULUTH, Minn. – Today, the final comment period closes for the proposed private equity acquisition of ALLETE, parent company of Minnesota Power. Under the proposed acquisition, ALLETE would no…

Environmental Organizations Demand that Minnesota Power Comply with Wastewater Rules At Boswell Plant One Year After Massive Coal-Ash Wastewater Spill

DULUTH, Minn. – Today, Sierra Club, CURE, and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA) sent a letter to Minnesota Power demanding that the company address problems associated…

Judge sides with consumers and the environment, slams proposed BlackRock buyout of Minnesota Power

DULUTH, Minn. – Today, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) released her report recommending that the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) reject the proposed private equity buyout of…

Participants from Across the Globe Set a New World Record in Effort to Protect the Great Lakes and Stop Line 5

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – In a massive collective effort to protect the Great Lakes and shut down Line 5, organizations and participants part of the Fish for the Future campaign broke the world…

Enbridge Pays to Destroy Indigenous Site in Effort to Push Forward Line 5 Tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac

EMMET COUNTY, Mich. – Circumventing federal review processes designed to protect Indigenous lands, Enbridge, the massive Canadian fossil fuel company responsible for Line 5, signed a…