The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes — so they are building them from hemp
The Indigenous nation will soon have the only facility to create hempcrete in the country.
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The Indigenous nation will soon have the only facility to create hempcrete in the country.
As powerful railroad companies race to maximize profits through efficiency, safety is left behind.
Researchers found PFAS in the Mississippi River, as well as the Sauk River, Clearwater River and Johnson Creek in central Minnesota.
Through a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers will expand Alaska’s ‘community justice worker’ model, allowing non-attorneys to represent people.
Advocates say this level of substance use prevention support is needed by young people in Greater Minnesota. While teens in rural communities struggle with the impact of substance use in levels similar to those in the Twin Cities, support programs in the region are few and far between.
Minnesota has 17 years to decarbonize its power grid following a mandate passed this year, but all new nuclear technologies are off the table unless a 30-year moratorium can be amended or overturned.
M.N. Technology of Cohasset has submitted a pre-application for financing from the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation agency, weeks after the state pledged to help a Missouri-based company.
Heartland Hub partnership among Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin is one of seven winners in national competition for $7 billion from federal infrastructure law.
With its plan to explore for nickel, cobalt and other minerals on non-federal land, Twin Metals has made an end run of a 20-year federal moratorium that dashed its efforts to mine in the Superior National Forest, whose watershed feeds into the Boundary Waters.
Should Minnesota and other states embrace nuclear power as they look to produce electricity from carbon-free sources?
The Department of Employment and Economic Development, which administers a fund meant to promote job creation in the Iron Range, said it is not bound by an endorsement of the project by the Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation board.
Legalization advocates ask whether the state financing gives large, out-of-state cannabis businesses a taxpayer-funded advantage over local companies.
From 2018-2021, Black adults ages 35-64, died from heart disease at approximately two times the rate of Minnesotans overall.
Experts in insect science spoke in St. Peter this week about how eating insects could help solve climate change and the global food crisis.
The fossil fuel defined economies and local traditions. What happens when it goes away?
Minnesota and the U.S. as a whole could learn from Canada and other countries that have leaned into nuclear power in the transition away from fossil fuels.
By 2040, all of the state’s power must come from carbon-free sources. Solar, hydro, and wind generation are being deployed at break-neck speed, but there’s one black sheep in the carbon-free family: nuclear power.
MinnPost interviewed Matt Varilek on Monday about his views on the economy in Greater Minnesota, child care, broadband, South Dakota, fraud in grant programs and more.