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Time for Legislative Action in 2023

mntuweb2023-04-30T13:32:42+00:00

Minnesota Trout Unlimited         4-30-2023 The Minnesota Senate passed a bill including a requirement that state agencies identify the statutes and rules that should be changed to prevent fish kills in Southeast MN.  This provision was rolled into the large Environment Omnibus bill HF2310.  However, the House version of the bill does not contain...

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Legislators Need to Pass the 2021 Legacy Bill Now

mntuweb2021-05-13T22:27:36+00:00

While differences between the House, Senate, and Governor over the state budget have increased thelikelihood of a special session, the Legacy bill relies on dedicated revenues and can still be passed by theend of the regular session on May 17—with or without a budget agreement. Dedicated funding toprotect and restore...

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Responsible Mining: A Roadmap for Mining Critical Minerals

mntuweb2025-03-11T20:08:27+00:00

A Roadmap for Mining of Critical Minerals and Sulfide Ore Deposits

For the past ten years the possibility of a new type of mining in northeast Minnesota has consumed the energies of environmentalists, conservationists, businesses, agencies, and politicians at all levels of government. The debate about whether, where and how to...

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Timber Harvest on Aquatic Management Lands

mntuweb2020-02-23T21:39:23+00:00

DNR to Cut 90% of AMAs on North Shore
Under the DNR’s proposed “Sustainable Timber Harvest Analysis” plan, the DNR intends to harvest trees from 90% of the land the Fisheries Section owns along trout and steelhead rivers in Lake County. This includes riparian forests along premier rivers such as the...

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Your Favorite Trout Stream May Be Impaired

mntuweb2020-02-23T15:03:30+00:00

What do the Whitewater, Vermillion, Straight and Sucker Rivers all have in common, besides being popular trout streams? They all suffer from one or more impairments caused by pollution or degradation.   This week the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency released its Draft 2020 Impaired Waters List identifying more than 500 additional stream...

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Ask Legislators to Drop Provisions Removing Groundwater Protections

mntuweb2019-05-13T14:21:28+00:00

The Environment & Natural Resources omnibus bill, SF2314, contains several provisions which, if adopted in the final bill version, would undermine basic groundwater protections and allow destruction of trout fisheries. The Senate version of SF 2314 has provisions (Sections 81, 82, 84 and 85) undermining intelligent groundwater management, which will lead...

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March 25 Meeting in Red Wing to examine nitrate contamination of Driftless trout streams – RSVP now

mntuweb2019-03-20T16:15:33+00:00

A key meeting to consider nitrate-contaminated groundwater and trout streams in the karst region of southeast Minnesota (MN’s portion of the Driftless area) will be held Monday March 25, 2019 in Red Wing, MN beginning at 5:30 p.m. The Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB) will hold a public meeting that...

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MPCA denies permit to proposed feedlot near Newburg & Wisel Creeks; recommends regional study of nitrate contamination

mntuweb2019-03-20T16:16:49+00:00

The MPCA has denied a general permit to the proposed feedlot near Newburg and Wisel Creeks in Fillmore County. This temporary reprieve for the groundwater and trout streams in the vicinity is welcome news. Below is the announcement from MPCA.   While denial of the general permit is a big deal and...

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Raid on Environmental Trust Fund

mntuweb2019-03-20T16:17:44+00:00

One of the bills which passed in the final hours of the MN legislative session was a bonding bill to which the LCCMR/ENRTF bill was amended.  The bill includes a raid on funds in the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF), which are constitutionally dedicated for environmental purposes.  Here...

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May 14 Legislative Update – with one week to end of session

mntuweb2018-05-14T17:36:39+00:00

The MN Legislature session ends in one week. It has been a strange session with few bills passed and instead a monster “omnibus omnibus” bill which plods forward.  It contains environmental policy provisions.  Since the Senate and House versions of this bill differ, the bill is in a conference committee...

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