Recent Posts

• Clean Water Accountability Act has passed! Posted 1 days ago
  MCEA and its partners are thrilled to report that the Clean Water Accountability Act has passed both the house and the Senate. It was incorporated into the Omnibus Legacy Bill, passing the House 77-57 and the Senate 43-21. It is now awaiting Governor Dayton's signature. Thank you to our authors - Representative John Persell and Senator John Hoffman - for their diligent work protecting Minnesota's sky blue waters! Read more about the bill here. 
• Help fight dirty coal! Posted last week
  MCEA needs your help to fight dirty coal. The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will decide this month whether Minnesota Power should be required to study the environmental and human health impacts of a life-extension project for a 600 megawatt coal plant. MCEA believes this study should be required so that the PUC has good information about this project and the alternatives, including renewable energy options. Take a moment and tell the PUC that you support a thorough study of the environmental and human health impacts on Minnesota Power's proposal. The deadline for comments is Monday, May 20th, at 4:30pm. Submit comments via email to PublicComments.PUC@state.mn.us or via US mail to Burl Haar, Executive Secretary, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, 121 7th Place East, Suite 350, St. Paul, MN 55101. Read the notice of public comment period here.  Read the petition MCEA filed here. 
• New Poll Finds Minnesota Power Customers Overwhelmingly Support Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency, Shift Away From Fossil Fuels in Minnesota Posted 2 weeks ago
  A new poll released today by Peak Campaigns shows that voters in the Minnesota Power service area overwhelmingly favor using clean, renewable energy sources to power the state. The poll comes out as Minnesota’s long-term energy plan – otherwise known as its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) – is under review by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. As the utility plans the next 15 years of its energy mix, more than 8-in-10 voters agreed with the statement that “we need to fundamentally change the way we get our energy in Minnesota by modernizing the electric grid to maximize energy efficiency and wind and solar energy use.” The telephone poll reached 401 voters in the Minnesota Power service area between April 6 and 9, 2013. According to the poll, three-in-four voters agree that “Minnesota utilities should reduce our need for coal and other fossil fuels by increasing energy efficiency and using more clean, renewable energy.” Almost eight in ten voters (79 percent) support phasing out Minnesota’s oldest coal-burning power plants and replacing them with greater use of clean, renewable energy and energy ...
• Hundreds rally for clean energy! Posted 2 weeks ago
  Hundreds rallied at the Minnesota state capitol to answer Governor Dayton’s call to build a sustainable energy future for our state in support of clean energy and good jobs! YEA! MN, a program of the Will Steger Foundation, organized the Young People's March for Climate Action to the rally. Watch the video from the rally!