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Landmark project: Customers buy less gas, company still profits
12/18/2009 3:46:33 PM
A pilot project with CenterPoint Energy provides incentives for customers to use less natural gas w...
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Updates: Duluth bicyclists vindicated; BWCA forecast is continued haze
12/16/2009 4:57:57 PM
Updates on two stories previously reported.
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Goodpaster called "unsung hero" in newspaper profile
11/23/2009 5:16:30 PM
The St. Paul Pioneer Press profiled MCEA's Beth Goodpaster and the work she did in stopping the Big...
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Feds agree with MCEA in cleaning haze over BWCA
11/11/2009 4:11:06 PM
A federal agency and state board took positive steps to clean up haze over Minnesota wilderness.
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"Persistence won out" in Big Stone II victory
11/3/2009 11:21:04 AM
After a more than four year struggle, MCEA and its allies were victorious and the coal-fired power ...
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MAJOR VICTORY: Big Stone II powerplant likely dead
9/14/2009 5:21:54 PM
The proposed Big Stone II coal-fired power plant's lead developer has pulled out of the project.
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MCEA, others, sue Secretary Clinton over tar sands pipeline
9/3/2009 5:50:03 PM
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton violated the law in the way she granted a permit to build a tar ...
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Clinton okays tar sands pipeline; MCEA, others will sue
8/21/2009 3:29:05 PM
State Department approval of a permit allowing a pipeline for dirty tar sands oil to be built from ...
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Hazing: MCEA fights to clean air over Boundary Waters
8/17/2009 10:32:03 AM
Haze is ruining the view in Boundary Waters and other pristine treasures.
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Agencies can't ignore global warming MCEA tells court
7/17/2009 4:39:22 PM
The DNR didn't adequately consider global warming pollution during environmental review of the taco...
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Good and bad ethanol and the global warming bill
6/16/2009 6:12:45 PM
Minnesota has good ethanol and bad ethanol. A vote for the Waxman-Markey bill will help good ethano...
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MCEA and allies appeal Big Stone II decision in court
6/5/2009 4:30:05 PM
MCEA and its allies filed with the Minnesota Court of Appeals to stop the Big Stone II coal-fired p...
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Erkel explains Obama's clean cars on WCCO
5/20/2009 2:40:58 PM
Jim Erkel explains to WCCO-AM's audience why the clean cars standard announced by President Obama i...
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Martha Brand: Wrong time for new nukes
4/14/2009 11:06:05 AM
Lifting the Minnesota nuclear power moratorium now is a bad idea, MCEA's executive director Martha ...
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MCEA files four lawsuits to stop dirty tar sands pipelines in Minnesota
4/7/2009 5:43:23 PM
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission was hit with four lawsuits Monday over its November decis...
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No new nukes still the right choice in Minnesota
3/25/2009 4:42:31 PM
 A bill to allow new nuclear power plants was introduced in the Legislature, even though no Minneso...
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Minnesota says no, for now, to tar sands pipeline
3/20/2009 4:43:12 PM
 Enbridge, Inc. suffered a major setback Thursday when the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission vo...
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MCEA staffer helping college-aged adults shift the power
3/12/2009 2:12:14 PM
 
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Judge recommends three new Mn. power lines, denies help for wind power
3/4/2009 10:18:12 AM
 A judge recommended that three new power lines be built in Minnesota, but without help for wind
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New hurdles for Big Stone II
2/11/2009 2:04:15 PM
The fight to prevent construction of the dirty coal-fired Big Stone II power plant is moving forwar...
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Martha Brand: Less pollution, more jobs
1/30/2009 2:06:38 PM
Coming at us is the new, green, recession-fighting machine. Barack Obama has promised repeate...
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State commission ignores record, approves Big Stone II power lines
1/20/2009 2:09:34 PM
A Minnesota commission last week ignored much of the record and voted to approve two power lines in...
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Superwarmer leakage rates now online
1/8/2009 2:11:20 PM
Now, for the first time anywhere, car buyers can check two Minnesota government Web sites to find o...
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Consider global warming in environmental reviews, MCEA says in mining appeal
12/15/2008 2:17:21 PM
The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy has filed an appeal with the Minnesota Court of App...
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State hearing to stop dirty tar sands oil pipeline set for Tuesday
11/25/2008 2:24:48 PM
The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy will argue Tuesday that a state agency should not g...
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