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Bog is dead: The waning defense of Minnesota wetlands

When peatlands like those in northern Minnesota begin releasing their ancient carbon — and they soon will — there will be no going back.
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GOP renewable energy backlash

Across the country, a big backlash to new renewables is mounting

Across the country, new renewable energy development has drawn heated opposition that has birthed, in many cases, bans, moratoriums and other restrictions. 
Public lands near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters withdrawn from federal mining leases

Public lands near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters withdrawn from federal mining leases

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland signed Public Land Order 7917, which protects areas of the Superior National Forest from federal geothermal and mineral extraction leases for the next 20 years.
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Part of a northwest Iowa river has been pumped dry

A segment of the river about four miles south of Ocheyedan has run dry at least four times since 2015.
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Sally Jewell and Ted Roosevelt IV: A great northern forest in Minnesota can help our world remain livable

The last thing that this watershed needs is to be the location of a massive industrial copper mining development, but that is precisely what a mining industry behemoth is proposing.
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