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Environmental News

MPR News is your source for environment news from Minnesota and across the country.

Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

Getting to Green is an MPR News series that shares stories about Minnesota’s clean energy transition, including what needs to be done to get there.

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Some energy-intensive industries taking steps to go green

Some energy-intensive industries taking steps to go green

In the cap and trade legislation, any entity that emits large amounts of greenhouse gases would have to have a permit for each ton of gas it emits. That's got energy-intensive industries worried. But many of them have already been reducing their energy use.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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Photo tour: Great River Energy

Photo tour: Great River Energy

Great River Energy's headquarters campus features a 200-kilowatt wind turbine that originated in Denmark. Great River Energy, an electric generation and transmission cooperative, opened it's new headquarters in Maple Grove in April 2008, and the building was named the first Platinum certified LEED building in Minnesota by the U.S. Green Building Council.
by Jeffrey Thompson

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GAO report looks at ethanol's use of water

A new government report says farmers in the Northern Plains use considerably more water to produce a gallon of corn ethanol than growers in other parts of the country.

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EPA chief: Obama to work with Congress on climate

EPA chief: Obama to work with Congress on climate

The United States for the first time outlined a dual path Wednesday toward cutting greenhouse gases that would involve both the Obama administration and Congress.

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New farming practices in middle of global warming debate

New farming practices in middle of global warming debate

America's vast stretches of farmland are a big resource in the fight against global warming because their soil traps carbon. But not all farmers believe changing their ways to help in that fight would be profitable.
by Mark Steil

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Can China lead on carbon reduction?

Can China lead on carbon reduction?

China says it will cut carbon emissions in the coming years and wants the developed world to do the same. A representative of an environmental think tank in China talks about how developing countries can make a difference. Some are skeptical that China is really doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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UN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record

This decade is very likely to be the warmest since record-keeping began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference.

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