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Traces of a wild Mississippi: Talking with Mike Davis

By Laurie Allmann | March 31, 2023 |

Insights from a longtime aquatic biologist

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Mississippi River, Uncategorized Tagged With: mississippi river, rivers

“Indian Country is clearing its throat”

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 1, 2017 |

Winter on the St. Louis River. Photo by Ivy Vainio

Tribes are working on many fronts to push Minnesota to do a better job of protecting the environment.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, environmental review, Lake Superior, mining, Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management, rivers, St. Louis River, tribes

Dueling lawsuits over Minntac permit

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 22, 2017 |

Minntac mine. Photo courtesy wikimedia commons by Bjoertvedt

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is at the center of lawsuits over a long-delayed water quality permit for the Minntac taconite mine.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: environmental review, mining, Northern Minnesota, resource management, rivers

Comparing PolyMet to Wisconsin’s Flambeau Mine

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 21, 2016 |

The Flambeau mine operated just 140 feet from the Flambeau River from 1993 to 1997.

A critic of the proposed PolyMet mine in Minnesota compares the project to the Flambeau mine, which operated in Wisconsin in the 1990s.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: environmental review, mining, rivers

Natural Forces, Lax Laws Responsible for River Pipeline Spills

By Greg Seitz | May 11, 2015 |

Line 61 crossing of the Eau Claire River in northern Wisconsin.

St. Croix River headwaters could be affected by powerful rivers and weak oversight.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Uncategorized Tagged With: conservation, fossil fuels, pipelines, rivers

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