MCEA’s legal advocacy team defends the rights of Minnesota’s environment and its citizens by ensuring environmental laws are enforced. The extraordinary organizational expertise of more than a dozen attorneys on MCEA’s staff and board is unmatched by any other environmental group in Minnesota.

MCEA’s professional expertise and strategically chosen efforts have made us the leading legal guardian of Minnesota’s environment. MCEA carefully selects cases to provoke changes in public policy and private behavior. We engage in courtroom litigation, administrative rulemaking, case hearings before administrative law judges, and permit proceedings conducted by state and federal agencies.

Surprising support in tar sands pipeline fight, despite court loss

More court action this past week in MCEA's battle against a tar sands pipeline and rhetorical support from, surprise, oil companies.

Landmark project: Customers buy less gas, company still profits

A pilot project with CenterPoint Energy provides incentives for customers to use less natural gas while also making sure the company does not lose money.

Catch MCEA on "Almanac" tonight discussing tar sands oil

MCEA lawyer Mary Marrow will explain why dirty tar sands oil is bad for Minnesota, the U.S. and Canada on the public affairs show Almanac.

Goodpaster called "unsung hero" in newspaper profile

The St. Paul Pioneer Press profiled MCEA's Beth Goodpaster and the work she did in stopping the Big Stone II power plant.

Groups argue for federal injunction against pipeline

A preliminary injunction to stop construction of the Enbridge pipeline is essential, environmental lawyers argued Wednesday.

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Feds agree with MCEA in cleaning haze over BWCA

A federal agency and state board took positive steps to clean up haze over Minnesota wilderness.

"Persistence won out" in Big Stone II victory

After a more than four year struggle, MCEA and its allies were victorious and the coal-fired power plant proposal is dead

MCEA in court next week in drainage case

A Kittson County judge will hear MCEA's arguments that Roseau County and others should be brought into an illegal drainage case.

This courtroom loss not all bad for environment

Court of Appeals handed MCEA a loss in Minnesota Steel case, but it has a big upside.

MCEA, others, sue Secretary Clinton over tar sands pipeline

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton violated the law in the way she granted a permit to build a tar sands oil pipeline from Canada across northern Minnesota to Superior, Wis., MCEA claimed in a lawsuit.