environment

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday said state regulators must conduct a further review for Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its deteriorating Line 3 crude oil pipeline because the project's environmental impact statement doesn't address the possibility of an oil spill into the Lake Superior watershed...

The federal Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday renewed mineral rights leases for a proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is looking for volunteers to monitor water quality in the state’s streams, lakes, and rivers.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources today reported that a bear was shot and killed today in a residential area of North St. Paul.

PolyMet Mining Corp. is offering Minnesota a $544 million package of financial assurances to serve as an insurance policy to protect taxpayers from having to cover the costs of shutting down and cleaning up the copper-nickel mine it proposes to build in northeastern Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In the closing days of the 2017 legislative session, Gov. Mark Dayton managed to fend off attempts to gut his top clean water accomplishment — a requirement for buffer strips of vegetation between farm fields and waterways.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Enbridge Energy has dropped its proposal to build the Sandpiper crude oil pipeline.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general says the Obama administration has failed to study as legally required the impact of requiring ethanol in gasoline.

DENVER (AP) — Garden-care giant Ortho said Tuesday it will stop using a class of chemicals widely believed to harm bees.

WEST ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A fire official says two bald eagles tussled in a tree in the front yard of a Minnesota home before firefighters arrived to break it up.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton has ordered the state Department of Natural Resources to stop the practice of radio-collaring moose as part of studying the animals.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota converted more wetlands into farmland than any other state when crop prices spiked between 2008 and 2012.

The Minnesota DNR is once again providing the public an “ up close and personal” view of a growing bald eagle family. The DNR says three eggs were laid in mid January and the first birth was recorded February 24. At last check, the other two eggs were still intact...