environment

Minnesota car dealers argued the method used by the Walz administration to enact be stricter vehicle emission standards violated the state constitution.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency estimates more than 10,000 gallons of gasoline escaped into the groundwater.

Construction could begin next year.

The Supreme Court is expected to be asked to review the case.

Thankfully we have had pretty cool temperatures to keep that carved pumpkin from rotting too quickly, but eventually you will have to dispose of it and here is how.

Rochester-based Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency is joining the growing movement in the energy industry to announce a plan that will significantly lower its CO2 emissions.

If you are going to be traveling today be aware the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued an air quality alert for eastern and central Minnesota effective Thursday, September 14 from 12-8pm. The affected area includes the Twin Cities Metro, Saint Cloud, Hinckley and the Tribal Nation of Mille Lacs.

Earlier this week the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced it was removing 640 stream miles from the public waters inventory. Actually, that was done about three months ago, but it became news this week when some environmental groups filed an appeal with the DNR...

A number of years ago I noticed a cardboard sort of a trap attached to a tree in my ditch. I left it alone and assumed it was perhaps part of the neighbor kid's science project. I later figured out it was actually a gypsy moth trap. The gypsy moth has slowly been making its way westward from the East Coast...

Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, every last one of them a public treasure. And we love them. We fish (year-round!), we boat, we ski, we sail, we swim, we dive, we splash, we skate. What we don't like is to see them covered in algae, their waters muddied by pollution and trash...