by Charley Shaw
Published: May 1, 2012
Tags: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Paul Aasen
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Commissioner Paul Aasen is resigning to become the city of Minneapolis’s coordinator.
by Charley Shaw
Published: April 23, 2012
Tags: Bill Ingebrigtsen, game and fish, Minnesota Senate
Nearly a week after an acrimonious meltdown concerning increases to hunting and fishing license fees, the Senate has passed its game and fish bill 36-30. Fifteen senators changed their votes from last week to vote in favor of the fee increases.
by Charley Shaw
Published: April 17, 2012
Tags: Bill Ingebrigtsen, Department of Natural, game and fish, Game and Fish Fund, hunting, hunting and fishing licenses, Minnesota Senate, Rod Skoe, Tom Bakk
A proposal to increase hunting and fishing license fees on Tuesday afternoon ran headlong into a wall on the Senate floor. The Republican chairman of the Senate environment committee accused DFLers of scuttling the legislation for political purposes.
by Charley Shaw
Published: April 5, 2012
Tags: Denny McNamara, environment, Friends of the Boundary Waters, Minnesota Environmental Partnership, Minnesota Wetland Conservation Act, Steve Morse
The state House on Thursday passed an environment policy bill 74-52 that drew fire from environmental groups.
by Charley Shaw
Published: March 29, 2012
Tags: 2012 legislative session, Bill Ingebrigtsen, dan fabian, Energy / Environment, Mark Dayton, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, pollution
The House and Senate on Thursday passed a conference report that reduces that further streamlines the environmental review permitting process. The bill, which is a priority for the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, now awaits a decision by Gov. Mark Dayton
by Charley Shaw
Published: March 22, 2012
Tags: Mark Dayton, Minnesota House of Representatives, permits
The GOP-controlled Legislature has advanced its second round of changes in as many years to Minnesota’s environmental permitting laws.
by Charley Shaw
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: Benjamin Kruse, school trust land, Tim O'Driscoll
A bipartisan group of state legislators announced legislation that would remove the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) from its role in managing school trust lands. The move reflects simmering disappointment with the amount of money the agency is generating from timber and mining operations on the lands.
by Charley Shaw
Published: January 25, 2012
Tags: 2012 legislative session, David Dill, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, wolf hunting season
Legislation to allow a wolf hunting season in Minnesota is scheduled on Thursday to be heard in a state House committee. The House bill and the DNR disagree about the timing of the wolf season.
by Charley Shaw
Published: January 13, 2012
Tags: Conservation Minnesota, Legacy amendment, Minnesota legislative auditor, Molly Pederson
The advocacy group Conservation Minnesota next week will release a detailed accounting of state lawmakers' track record on Legacy spending. In it the group raises concerns that lawmakers are using Legacy funds in ways that voters didn’t intend when they agreed in 2008 to increase the sales tax to pay for outdoors and cultural projects.
by Charley Shaw
Published: December 23, 2011
Tags: Amy Koch, Commissioner Tom Landwehr, Denny McNamara, Ellen Anderson, Greg Hubinger, Jean Wagenius, John Velin, Kurt Zellers, Linda Higgins, Susan Thornton
News that Susan Thornton, the chief staffer for the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR), had been fired came as a shock last week to many state legislators and people who lobby on environmental funding issues.
