About the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA)

Since 1974, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy has been protecting our water, air, land and people.

MCEA works with government agencies, the Legislature, and the courts to set sound environmental policy, to ensure good laws are enacted, and to enforce the law when needed. We are committed to working across all sectors – private and public, profit and nonprofit, political and academic – to form the partnerships needed to succeed. Real environmental issues are complex and real environmental progress takes time. MCEA is in it for the long haul.

 

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Recent Posts

  • Analysis of promised "mining boom" Posted 2 days ago
    Marshall Helmburger has a good piece on the economic report that has been used by copper/nickel mining proponents and by the DNR's supplemental environmental impact statement (SDEIS) for the PolyMet project. Despite claims to the contrary, copper-nickel mining in northeastern Minnesota will not have a major positive effect on either job totals or tax revenues, even without considering possible job and tax revenue losses from displaced businesses in the area.
  • New Enbridge pipeline Posted 2 days ago
    The KeystoneXL pipeline has received all the attention, but an enormous amount of so-called "diluted bitumen" or "dilbit" from the Alberta tar sands runs through Minnesota.  Enbridge is now trying to double that capacity.  "Dilbit" poses a more significant environmental threat than regular crude oil, because it does not float, but rather can sink to the bottom of any waterway it enters.  Enbridge and taxpayers have already spent over $1 billion on a dilbit cleanup near Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • Wild Rice and Sulfate Standards Posted last week
    Important article by Josephine Marcotty on the front page of the Star Tribune this morning regarding wild rice and sulfate standards: Research, legal wrangling reap wild rice protections

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Recent Posts

  • MCEA Comments on Litchfield WWTF Posted 4 days ago
    The Litchfield WWTF discharges into Jewitts Creek, which is impaired for low dissolved oxygen (hurting aquatic life), bacteria, and chloride. A clean-up plan has already been approved by EPA for dissolved oxygen and bacteria. The facility wants to expand to treat an additional 700,000 gallons per day, but MPCA did not conduct a necessary review to prevent degradation or impose the permit limits in the cleanup plan to protect Jewitts Creek. MCEA's comments object to the lack of review and permit limits.
  • MCEA welcomes Leigh Currie, Staff Attorney Posted last week
    Leigh Currie, a 2006 graduate of the William Mitchell College of Law with a Masters Degree in Conservation Biology from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Environmental Science from Tufts, has joined Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy’s legal team as a staff attorney. Her tenure begins Monday, February 24.  She will practice primarily in the area of energy law.   Read the press release here.
  • Congress Passes Farm Bill with Conservation Compliance and Conservation Cuts Posted 3 weeks ago
    Congress has reached agreement on a farm bill after two years of delays. The final bill contains both wins and losses for environmental protections. "Conservation compliance," which requires farmers to meet minimum environmental standards to receive subsidies, has been re-attached to the biggest farm subsidy - crop insurance. "Sodsaver," which limits subsidies for converting prairie land to farm land, applies in Minnesota and five other states in the Upper Midwest. Conservation funding was cut by $6 billion over ten years. Direct payments to farmers for owning cropland ...

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