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Senate Republicans threaten to cut state parks funding over 'clean cars' rule GOP bill cuts funding unless rules reducing emissions are stopped.  By Jennifer Bjorhus, Greg Stanley and Briana Bierschbach, Star Tribune May 4, 2021 — 5:39pm Text size Copy shortlink: Minnesota's state parks could shut down in July if the Walz administration does not bow to demands by Senate Republicans to drop plans for new "clean cars" emissions standards. Along with parks, much of the environmental arm of state government wo...

Copy shortlink: For centuries, the wild grasslands and valleys of Minnesota were dotted with a type of cactus, spiky and round, that blooms every spring. It grows about ankle high, roughly the size of a softball, and sprouts a violet or hot pink/fuchsia flower with a golden center. It survives almost exclusively on top of granite, growing on the large stones and outcroppings that jut out of the state's scattered prairies and wetlands. Now, arborists warn, it needs saving — quickly. The threatened species has lost all but two of its largest populations in the state. B...

As bats continue to die off, St. Cloud plans to transform old sewer into bat cave Greg Stanley, Star Tribune Thousands of hibernating bats have survived Minnesota winters by holing up in one of St. Cloud's oldest stormwater tunnels. Built in the 1920s, the almost ornate brick-and-mortar sewer opens to a ravine that pours into the Mississippi River. But the tunnel has failed to keep up with the growth of the city. With all the new homes, roads, driveways and other paved places added over the last century, too much water is now being sent through it, drowning out any creatures t...

Rare, threatened Minn. cactus species could be saved Greg Stanley, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/LEILA NAVIDI • leila.navidi@startribune.com/Star Tribune/TNS A ball cactus plant at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. For centuries, the wild grasslands and valleys of Minnesota were dotted with a type of cactus, spiky and round, that blooms every spring. It grows about ankle high, roughly the size of a softball, and sprouts a violet or hot pink/fuchsia flower with a golden center. It survives almost exclusively on top of granite, growing on the large stones and out...

Minnesota Supreme Court hits pause on PolyMet permit to mine DNR must hold trial-like hearing on copper mine's tailings dam proposal.  April 28, 2021 — 8:19pm Text size Copy shortlink: The Minnesota Supreme Court has overturned PolyMet's permit to mine in Minnesota, sending the company's central permit back to state regulators for further review. It is a fresh blow to what would be the state's first copper mine, a $1 billion open-pit mine project near Babbitt and Hoyt Lakes that has stalled with several permits on hold or under r...