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Don Shelby

Don Shelby has a special interest in the environment and ecology. Before retiring in 2010, he worked for 32 years as anchor, investigative reporter and environmental correspondent for WCCO-TV. He also worked for 10 years as a radio personality for WCCO-AM. He has won numerous professional awards, and has twice won The George Foster Peabody award. He is a member of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team roundtable, serves on the boards of Minnesota GreenStar and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, and is the capital campaign chair for the Washburn Center for Children.

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Reflections on my reporting about the environment and global warming
Environment

Reflections on my reporting about the environment and global warming

By Don Shelby | 03/27/12

My kind of reporting is not everyone’s cup of tea.

Pollution in BWCA
Environment

Environmentalists take on MPCA over pollution in BWCA and northern parks

By Don Shelby | 03/20/12

A pollution-bearing haze is coming from coal-fired power plants and taconite operations.

political rally
Environment

Why I never want to cover politicians

By Don Shelby | 03/13/12

I am most saddened and angered by the hubris of candidates who say they know that global warming is a hoax.

Don Shelby's home
Environment

My house on Parade of Homes and a new way of thinking

By Don Shelby | 03/06/12

Parade of Homes veterans tell me the house is attracting a different breed of tourist. This crowd asks harder questions.

Environment

Monsanto asks its scientists if global warming is real

By Don Shelby | 02/28/12

The company’s Dr. David I. Gustafson concludes global warming is indeed real and will be a problem for farmers.

Darby Nelson
Environment

Darby Nelson: A modern-day Thoreau

By Don Shelby | 02/21/12

Nelson has written a book, “For Love of Lakes,” that’s a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.

Rev. Canon Sally Bingham
Environment

Interfaith Power & Light seeks to protect our earth as creation of God

By Don Shelby | 02/14/12

I went to church Sunday, and I sent a Valentine's Day card to a U.S. senator.

Bar chart showing funding for Clean Water Partnership
Environment

With Legacy fund 'backfilling' of budget cuts, Legislature seems to be breaking spirit of the law

By Don Shelby | 02/07/12

The Conservation Minnesota group pointedly suggests that the questionable practice is going on, but those engaged in the budget fixes argue that they've stayed within the letter of the law.

Environment

Cities, industries have reduced their Mississippi River pollution — now it's farmers' turn

By Don Shelby | 01/31/12

Minnesota is the first test state for a new, voluntary program to limit farm runoff.

Environment

Lawyer Brian O'Neill: Battling Exxon for more than 20 years

By Don Shelby | 01/24/12

In the fight for the environment against those who would harm it, one of the country's top soldiers in that battle has retired from the field.