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!
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
To increase the use of residential solar energy systems, HF5171 and SF5271 will grant financial incentives to permitting authorities charged with the application approval process to utilize SolarAPP, a solar automated software system. This program is offered by the US Department of Energy free of charge. It will greatly simplify and streamline the approval time, a process which now is… Read More »Encourage Solar Energy Use
Two bills, HF4304 and SF3480, provide for the transfer of approximately 155,000 acres of state-owned land that lies within what is now the White Earth State Forest to the White Earth Nation. All of the land proposed for transfer lies within the original boundaries of the White Earth Reservation established by treaty in 1867. Like most tribes in the country, White… Read More »Justly Return Land to White Earth Nation
