MPR News PM Update

March 22, 2022

The peak intensity of our latest storm brings rain, ice, and snow through tonight. Bands of moderate to heavy rainfall have already produced over half an inch of rain in the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota. And a mix of ice and snow continues across northern Minnesota.

Get the latest forecast and weather news via Updraft — Paul Huttner, MPR News

 
Hundreds of Minn. facilities to test for ‘forever chemicals’
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said it will collect monitoring data from 379 facilities identified as potential emitters of PFAS. The expanded monitoring is part of the state’s blueprint, released last year, aimed at preventing, managing or cleaning up PFAS pollution.
 
Byron, Minn., schools bar Ukrainian flag display in class
Teachers in the Rochester-area school district are asking administrators to reevaluate policies that they say prevent teachers from displaying the Ukrainian flag in classrooms.
 
Jackson pushes back at GOP critics, defends record
Facing Republican senators' pointed questions, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is forcefully defending her record as a federal judge. 
 
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Congressional candidate Amane Badhasso questions treatment of immigrant DFL delegates
Wintana Melekin has served as a delegate at DFL conventions for more than 15 years. So she was puzzled when she received a recent text from a DFL volunteer asking if she had signed up as a delegate for a candidate vying to become the first Oromo woman elected to Congress.
 
Ukraine thwarts Russian advances; fight rages for Mariupol
Ukrainian forces fought off continuing Russian efforts to occupy Mariupol and claimed to have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv, mounting a defense so dogged that it is stoking fears Russia’s Vladimir Putin will escalate the war to new heights.
 
Feds propose endangered species listing for northern long-eared bat
A federal judge last year ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider a 2015 decision to list the bat as threatened rather than endangered.
 

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