The EPA found that Minnesota’s lack of response to nitrate pollution in the karst areas of SE Minnesota had put thousands of households that depend on wells for their drinking water at risk. Please support bills to continue Minnesota’s public health work to ensure that all well owners in southeast Minnesota have clean, safe water to drink from their wells.… Read More »Support Safe, Drinking Water for Well Owners
The Boundary Waters belongs to all Americans. Don’t allow foreign mining companies to conduct sulfide mining in the BWCA Watershed. Tell your MN representative to oppose HR978. Some places like the Boundary Waters are too precious to risk. Use this link to locate the name and e-mail for your legislator.
Voting is a very important civic duty! The League of Women Voters MN has a useful site with candidate information. You simply have to enter your address. The Minnesota Secretary of State has a sample ballot — “What’s on My Ballot” — which you can preview. Again, simply enter your address. This is such an important election! Check with your neighbors and… Read More »Got a Voting Plan?
Enbridge Line 5 is unnecessary and a risk to the public. The US Army Corps of Engineers is ignoring this reality. A federal judge has found that Enbridge line 5 oil pipeline has been illegally trespassing on the Bad River Reservation since 2013. The court has ordered the pipeline to be shut down by June 2026. However, this important federal… Read More »Let’s drink water not oil!
On Monday, FUS Ukraine Sponsorship Project team members welcomed the latest refugee family to come to Minneapolis at the MSP airport with our support. This delightful family consists of Andrii (13) and Oleksandr (6) and their mother Iryna. Iryna’s husband and the father of the boys remains in Ukraine, serving in the army, defending his country. While the family was… Read More »Welcoming a fourth Ukrainian refugee family to MN
The FUS Ukraine project team are happy to report that they will welcome to Minneapolis a fourth refugee family from Ukraine in early July. The family from Odessa includes two boys, Oleksandr 6 and Andrii 13, and their mother Iryna. The boy’s father and Iryna’s husband is in the military and expects to remain in Ukraine for the duration of… Read More »Ukraine Announcement
Reporting child maltreatment to appropriate agencies is the first step to helping children and families get the help that they desperately need. Current bills in the Minnesota Legislature SF4037 and HF4793 make clear that the failure to report maltreatment of a child is a misdemeanor. A mandatory reporter who knows or has reason to believe a child is being maltreated… Read More »Ensure Help for Children & Families
Minnesotans have seen and experienced the horror of needless gun killings of adults and children in the last few months. None of these tragic deaths would have happened if guns had not been in the hands of children or adults ineligible to possess a firearm. It is time to pass some simple common sense gun laws that help keep ineligible… Read More »Prevent Tragic Gun Deaths
Over 2,000 miles of C02 pipelines – proposed to be used for Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) – are currently proposed across the midwest, traversing Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. It is claimed that they would carry carbon dioxide “captured” from ethanol plants and other industrial sites, but carbon capture and storage is complicated and unproven. The basic… Read More »No Pipelines for Carbon
The Clean Transportation Standard Act (SF2584/HF2602) proposes to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuel with a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), but it is a false solution that is not possible with ethanol. A recent study from the University of Wisconsin “found that the carbon intensity of corn ethanol produced under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is no less… Read More »Low Carbon Fuel Standard Is Not A Solution
