For the first time since setting goals in 2007 for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Minnesota is on track to meet them, state regulators said this week.
What’s a Minnesota winter without pond hockey? Without ice fishing? A warming planet is prompting a Minnesota arts festival to dive deeper into the cultural meaning of the state’s coldest season.
We can’t see it, and coroners rarely report it, but air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels prematurely kills an estimated nine million people worldwide every year.
Our state leaders and legislators must seize this moment to create thousands of high-wage clean energy jobs and protect the clean air and healthy soil we all depend on. What are we waiting for?
