The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued another air quality alert for Tuesday and Wednesday. The alert zone includes the northern half of Minnesota basically along and north of an Ortonville to Hinckley line. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
🎙️Coming up on Morning Edition: Today, MPR News is kicking off a new series looking at Minnesota's transition to clean energy. It's called Getting to Green . On Tuesday mornings, our reporters will be exploring the opportunities — and the challenges —the state faces as it moves away from fossil fuels and toward more climate-friendly energy sources.
Reporter Kirsti Marohn goes to rural Clearwater for a look at one of the biggest challenges the transition brings: the need for more power lines.
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Moving solar and wind energy from where it's produced to where it's needed means a major buildout of new transmission lines, but the projects often face pushback from landowners concerned about aesthetics, health and the environment.
Adoptee reflects on Minnesota's new adoption policy, opening decades of family secrets. Lost in the hubbub over legalizing marijuana and a massive budget surplus at the Minnesota Capitol this year were nine lines of state statute remaking adoption policy. They were tucked into the state's massive 909-page health policy bill.
Biden is creating a new national monument near the Grand Canyon. The move protects lands that are sacred to indigenous peoples and permanently bans new uranium mining claims in the area. It covers nearly 1 million acres.
