North Star Blog

Nearly 1,000 people gathered today on the shores of Gichi-gami—Lake Superior— for a rally and march to express their ongoing opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline. The crowd expressed appreciation to the Minnesota Pollution Control...

As part of the 9th annual National Drive Electric Week, this Sunday over a hundred electric vehicle owners and enthusiasts will rendezvous at Lake Monster Brewing in Saint Paul, followed by a short bike ride and rally to extend the Midtown Greenway...

This month we are spotlighting Alex Burns, chair of our Land Use and Transportation Team, who is hoping you will join him on our annual bike tour on September 15th!

This month, we are spotlighting Mateo, whose videography work to inspire others to join in fighting for our planet will be shared later in July.

When you stood up and asked our utility to consider the goal you were all but laughed out of the room. When you asked Public Transit to consider electrifying buses, you were told it was unreasonable. When you said we had a responsibility to act on...

The proposed Enbridge Line 3 crude oil pipeline will run 340 miles through northern Minnesota, crossing more than 200 water bodies and 75 miles of wetlands. It also threatens wild rice areas important to the Anishinaabe. Stunningly, Enbridge already...

Minnesota Power is still trying to build Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC), a proposed new gas-burning power plant. Despite a ruling last July that NTEC was not “needed or reasonable” and not in the public interest, the Minnesota PUC approved the...

This week, we celebrated big news in the fight to Stop Line 3: On Monday, the courts denied Enbridge's Environmental Impact Statement for its failure to address the impact of spills on Lake Superior. We caught up with Scott Russell, this month's...

This divided government led to a stalemate conclusion to the 2019 Legislative Session, with anti-environment leadership in the Senate consistently refusing to move the needle on legislation core to Minnesota values -- including protecting our waters...

Last week, Xcel Energy and Sierra Club made big headlines with an agreement that included an announcement that Xcel was going coal-free by 2030. On the same day, Xcel shared a preview of its IRP (Integrated Resource Plan, a 15-year, long-term energy...