Community Voices
Meeting our carbon-reduction goal can go in many different directions, so it’s critical now that the PUC and state government protect the public interest. This may be no easy task.
Community Voices
Twelve years. That’s all the time we have to make one degree of change.
Earth Journal
Was there really such broad consensus on what had to be done to address climate change? Was the marquee failure all that pivotal?
Community Voices
The recent negative tenor of public discussion about the status of mining has been disheartening. Without mining, we cannot solve our most serious environmental problems, starting with climate change.
Letters
Enbridge Line 3 has been Minnesota’s lifeline to affordable, North American-made crude oil since the 1960s.
Community Voices
PUC staff agreed in a recent report that Enbridge’s new route would have the least impact on the environment.
Community Voices
A new report from Moody’s Investors Service highlights how wind projects are boosting tax revenues and helping erase debt in rural communities that host them.
Economic Vitality in Greater Minnesota
Last year solar jobs dropped 4 percent nationwide, while in Minnesota they rose 48.2 percent. Many installers complain that they can’t get enough labor for the demand.
Community Voices
Clean energy is no longer a liberal pipe dream, and conservatives need to embrace it.
From Other Nonprofit Media
Community colleges — and at least one high school — are starting programs to train students for these in-demand occupations.
Community Voices
If our communities would streamline administrative regulations, we could lower the cost of going solar by as much as $500 for a typical home rooftop system.
Earth Journal
Smaller-scale, community-based “solar gardens” kept Minnesota accelerating as national progress slowed.
Community Voices
Our state’s leaders should advance policies that further increase opportunities for growth and innovation in the energy efficiency and clean energy industry.
Economic Vitality in Greater Minnesota
Farmers and other landowners in Chisago County have put up a dozen solar gardens, with another four now in the planning stages.
Politics & Policy
It wasn’t immediately clear who stood to benefit from the Trump administration’s move.
Community Voices
Ten years after its passage, the Next Generation Energy Act has been a roaring success, cleaning our air, saving us money, and boosting our economy.
Environment
Proposals to build turbines in North America’s Great Lakes have stalled in recent years — but a new initiative aims to break through the barriers.
Earth Journal
The move has gotten little attention because of the other huge issues involved in the tax bill.
Community Voices
The project offers more than $2 billion in economic impact, will better meet our needs for affordable and reliable liquid fuels, and will enhance the safety of our environment.
Community Voices
It may surprise people to hear that, thanks to advancements in turbine technology and better weather forecasting tools, wind is actually among the lowest cost energy sources.
