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Conservatives gear up to battle EPA carbon rules
Conservative lawmakers are ready to fight tooth-and-nail about the terms of new energy rules forced upon the state by President Barack Obama and the Environmental ...
Read More »How to avoid pitfalls of brownfield remediation
A proactive approach is the best way for developers and contractors to prevent unforeseen complications from derailing construction schedules.
Read More »When Republican Nixon listened to liberal Moynihan
If more administrations handled domestic issues in the way the Nixon White House did in 1969, there would be many fewer complaints about powerful White House staffs.
Read More »For campaigns, it’s mines over other matters
U.S. Senate candidates joust over foreign steel and the PolyMet mine proposal.
Read More »Feds aim for efficiency in Gateway Corridor reviews
The proposed 12-mile bus rapid transit or light rail line between downtown St. Paul and Woodbury is among 11 projects tapped by the Obama administration to be part of a program to increase coordination among the federal agencies that oversee major infrastructure projects.
Read More »Budget resolves some woes, but fights loom
Congress has less than a month to write an encyclopedic spending bill funding every agency in the government.
Read More »MPCA loan program aims to save truckers fuel, money
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is offering loans to truck drivers for purchase of equipment that will allow them to avoid wasting fuel by idling their parked vehicles overnight.
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