Elizabeth Dunbar covers the environment for MPR News.
Four people who broke into Enbridge Energy property in Minnesota in an effort to stop oil from flowing can argue they needed to shut the pipeline down, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday.
The latest report from the Nature Conservancy focuses on different locations' capacity to support a variety of species despite climate change.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota's West Central Research and Outreach Center in Morris say solar arrays and electric vehicles could help offset greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
Just ahead of Earth Day, MPR News takes stock of the state's moves away from coal and toward renewable energy sources like solar and wind.
Legislation that would get rid of Minnesota's longstanding yet rarely enforced wild rice standard is ready for floor votes in the House and Senate.
President Trump's EPA is moving toward a repeal of the Obama-era standards, which are aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
Minnesota's portion of the VW settlement — $47 million — will be spent in three phases over 10 years to reduce tailpipe emissions.
Nuclear power is expensive, especially when you're dealing with power plants that were built in the early 1970s. Xcel Energy wants to keep running its Monticello and Prairie Island nuclear plants for another 12 to 15 years, but utility officials are also concerned about how much that will cost.
Oil pipelines have become a rallying point for climate activists in the U.S., who argue the volume of oil transported and burned will worsen climate change. But pipeline companies argue global demand ensures oil will be extracted, moved and burned one way or another.
Minnesota electric and gas utilities expect to save tens of millions of dollars under the tax plan President Trump signed into law last year.
Coal still accounts for 39 percent of Minnesota's electricity generation, but wind and solar continue to gain, according to a report released Thursday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
A 48-year-old Minneapolis woman was arrested early Friday on charges related to the abuse of her twin daughters, according to jail records.
Prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against the 51-year-old father. The criminal complaint says he impregnated one twin who gave birth last year. Child neglect charges have been filed against the mother of the daughters.
State officials say a new panel will decide how best to spend the $850 million the state will receive from 3M over groundwater contamination in the eastern Twin Cities suburbs.
The settlement, which will go to fund water projects, came just before the case was set to go to trial over chemical groundwater contamination in several east Twin Cities suburbs.
Minntac's tailings basin, where mining waste is mixed with water and stored, has been operating under a permit that expired in 1992.
Climate change activists tried to shut off a northwest Minnesota oil pipeline and were arrested. Now, an appeals court will decide whether they can use the "necessity defense."
A judge has issued a one-week delay in a trial scheduled to start next week over the dumping of chemicals that leeched into east metro drinking water.
Some lawmakers want utilities to pass along savings from the new federal tax law to their customers.
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