Minnesota’s Clean Power Plan is now a year old. Activists, elected officials and others recently celebrated the anniversary at the Minneapolis Urban League’s Northside headquarters. The plan was first announced in August 2015 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the first national effort to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants. Minnesota Pollution Control […]
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MN pollution control officials review community input on Clean Power Plan
Listening sessions used to collects common energy concerns across the state The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) over the past several months conducted community listening sessions around the state on the federal government’s proposed clean power plan. “We have been working closely with the PCA,” notes local environmental justice organizer Karen Monahan of MPCA officials, […]