The effort to overturn the Obama administration’s last-minute ban on mining in northern Minnesota just reached a new level. The chairs of two key congressional subcommittees got a first hand…
Solar power currently provides less than one percent of Minnesota’s total electricity generation. But the push for more solar energy production continues, and utility customers are being heavily encouraged to…
The ordinance banning plastic bags for many commercial uses in Minneapolis takes effect June 1. So close and yet so far for the environmental special interests determined to make the…
Another breakthrough moment for the Minnesota mining industry occurred this week. But will it matter, given environmentalists’ reflexive opposition to mining, no matter how responsibly done? The Duluth News Tribune…
Today’s Dilbert cartoon sums up contemporary climate “science” very well. Click to enlarge: Does the climate scientist in the cartoon remind you of anyone? Yeah. Here is a photo of…
Our military used to boast about its fire power. These days the brass brags about its solar power. The Minnesota National Guard has just unveiled the latest weapon in the…
A Minneapolis ban on plastic bags is set to take effect on June 1. According to a city news release, the purpose of the ban is “to reduce the litter,…
To be sure, America faces many tough cultural challenges ahead, beginning with fatherless households, failing schools, and violent crime. But economically and environmentally, the future could be so very bright,…
Here’s another case in point for those who still wonder why rural Minnesotans have largely abandoned the DFL in recent elections. The Dayton administration’s heavy-handed approach to environmental regulation has…
Greenpeace is sure singing a different tune now that they are being held accountable in court for their baseless claims by Resolute, a Canadian forest-products company. According to Richard Garneau,…
There’s a “yuge” public meeting in Duluth tomorrow on the planned Twin Metals copper mine being held up by a last-minute Obama administration preemptive regulatory strike. Hundreds of supporters and…
Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith wants 50 percent of Minnesota’s energy to come from renewable sources by 2030. The current renewable energy standards enacted under Governor Pawlenty is “25 percent by…
Congressman Jason Lewis would contain the council from DC.
It may not be too late to save freedom of choice at the checkout line in Minneapolis. All Minnesotans’ ability to choose between paper or plastic at their local grocery…
Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees. But in one suburban Blaine neighborhood, you can’t see the forest because the city leveled the trees without warning as part…
If there were such a thing as environmental justice, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency would cease and desist from distributing the taxpayer-funded Living Green 365 monthly newsletter. Did you make…
It hasn’t been a Eureka moment for St. Paul residents dealing with the city’s newly implemented recycling program. Word on the curbside is that the project that’s designed for residents…
A month before leaving office, President Obama basically banned copper mining in the Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota with a stroke of his pen. The post-election executive order went…
Dang if the Star Tribune isn’t surprising the heck out of me with their third reasonable editorial in the span of 11 days. Perhaps my faithful support as a paperboy…
Look for renewable energy subsidies to get much closer scrutiny under a new administration in Washington and new legislative majorities in St. Paul. But a recent Star Tribune story celebrating…
There was a surprisingly amount of energy truth contained in a November Washington Post editorial about the Dakota pipeline protests: How did the out-of-state activists protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline arrive…
Xcel won’t go on the record with MNPUC about whether its renewable energy strategy is the least-cost option for its customers
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just reported that 2016 was the 2nd warmest year on record in the United States. Former NASA climatologist Roy Spencer’s global satellite dataset of…
Former NASA climatologist Roy Spencer, who continues to compile and maintain one of the global satellite temperature records, is one of the leading skeptics of climate alarmism. As with much…