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Citizens’ Board does a good thing; Powers of Darkness push back; Action Alert

By on December 5, 2014 in "biomass", "Streamlining" and "Improvement", climate change, Environmental Justice, Environmental Quality Board, Environmental Regulation--Protecting Minnesota, Frac sand mining, Garbage, Mining, Minnesota energy policy, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, MPCA Citizens' Board

Feedlot Action Alert, and: Update: “Strange nonsense at the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (and the MPCA)”

In June I did a post critical of the MN Environmental Quality Board and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, suggesting that the environment of Minnesota isn’t being protected very well.  The email of this post had a higher readership than any other I’ve written.  One friend called it “very depressing.”  It garnered me some disapproving looks from EQB and Citizens’ Board members.  What’s happened since?

(The rest of this post relates to the MPCA and it’s Citizens’ Board.  In my view the EQB is looking like a train wreck, but that’s for another post.) Continue Reading →

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A detailed review of every contaminated site in Minnesota is urgently needed….

By on August 6, 2014 in Environmental Justice, General Mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Superfund, Uncategorized

One of the best elected officials I know of is Cam Gordon of the Minneapolis MN City Council.  Gordon is a Green Party member, one of a relative handful of official Greens holding office in the United States.  I don’t agree with all Gordon’s positions, of course, but he shows an impressive ability to maintain independent and thoughtful positions while seeming to maintain working relationships with his colleagues. In March, 2014, Gordon posted this commentary (below) on one of the more consequential environmental scandals to surface recently in Minnesota. Continue Reading →

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