Feds add more hoops for DNR logging on wildlife management areas
by Duluth News Tribune | January 11, 2024
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is tightening requirements imposed on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources when the state wants to cut trees in wildlife management areas. The latest details, included in a letter from the federal agency to the DNR, were made public by the ...
Court says MPCA did not take ‘hard look’ at NorthMet permit
by Duluth News Tribune | August 2, 2023
Minnesota regulators did not adequately consider whether a key water permit for a proposed copper-nickel mine would comply with the Clean Water Act and did not take seriously federal regulators’ concerns, which were left out of the public record, on the permit, the Minnesota Supreme ...
Minnesota Supreme Court to take up PolyMet water permit case
by Duluth News Tribune | April 20, 2022
The Supreme Court on Tuesday also granted requests from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 704 , Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Public Records Media, Minnesota Coalition on Government Information, Minnesota Well Owners Organization and two ...