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Impasse over ‘clean cars’ rule continues to hold up Minn. environmental funding Jennifer Bjorhus, Greg Stanley, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/ALEX KORMANN • Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS A driver plugged in the charger to his Tesla at the ChargePoint charging station near Canal Park Lodge in Duluth in 2019. Millions of dollars for environmental efforts around Minnesota, from fighting off invasive carp to state park operations, remains in limbo despite a broad state budget agreement because of the ongoing impasse over new vehicle emissions rules. Senate Repub...

Copy shortlink: Millions of dollars for environmental efforts around Minnesota, from fighting off invasive carp to operating state parks, remain in limbo despite a broad state budget agreement because of the ongoing impasse over new vehicle emissions rules. Senate Republicans have blocked the omnibus environment bill, determined to stop Minnesota from following California's lead in tightening tailpipe emissions standards and requiring automakers to send more electric vehicles to the state for sale. That package of environmental legislation sets the budgets for the Minn...

The soil and water near some of the most polluted wells in Minnesota is almost entirely clean three years after a new type of wheat was planted on the surface. The perennial wheat, called Kernza, was grown just west of Brainerd on a few acres immediately surrounding wells within corn and soybean fields. Over the past three years, it cut nitrate contamination from the cornfields by 96% and from ...

by Greg Stanley (Star Tribune)  Judge says governor can bypass GOP opposition. — More electric vehicles could soon be for sale on Minnesota car lots after an administrative law judge ruled Friday that the Walz administration can set new emissions standards without the OK of lawmakers. The ruling by Judge Jessica Palmer-Denig clears the way for state regulators to adopt the new “clean car” rules that would require manufacturers to deliver more electric vehicles and hybrids to the state. It does not, however, resolve a standoff with Republican lawmakers that could still upend the admini...

Copy shortlink: More electric vehicles could soon be for sale on Minnesota car lots after an administrative law judge ruled Friday that the Walz administration can set new emissions standards without the OK of lawmakers. The ruling by Judge Jessica Palmer-Denig clears the way for state regulators to adopt the new "clean car" rules that would require manufacturers to deliver more electric vehicles and hybrids to the state. It does not, however, resolve a standoff with Republican lawmakers that could still upend the administration's plans. Republican lawmakers have oppos...