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Sierra Club and a group of citizens are urging more aggressive action to fight climate change.

Copy shortlink: The Department of Natural Resources has rejected the latest plea from a citizens group to formally review alleged environmental threats from a proposed 764-mile back-roads driving route that the agency intends to open across northern Minnesota for four-wheel drive owners. The petitioners are concerned that the so-called Border to Border Touring Route will unduly escalate traffic of high-impact vehicles on natural surface roads that snake through remote forest lands amid pristine waters and sensitive wetlands. The group —Citizens for Sustainable Off-Ro...

DNR again denies review of its own motorized backroad route proposal Up North Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune The Department of Natural Resources has rejected the latest plea from a citizens group to formally review alleged environmental threats from a proposed 764-mile back-roads driving route that the agency intends to open across northern Minnesota for four-wheel drive owners. The petitioners are concerned that the so-called Border to Border Touring Route will unduly escalate traffic of high-impact vehicles on natural surface roads that snake through remote forest lands amid pri...

'Report card' on Walz's climate performance gives him low marks A coalition led by the Sierra Club North Star Chapter of environmental advocates and native leaders say Gov. Walz is falling short on climate policies. 6:09 pm, Apr. 15, 2021 × Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. State of Minnesota photo. Environmental leaders and organizations say Gov. Tim Walz isn’t doing enough for Minnesota’s climate. The North Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, along with other environmental organizations, issued a mid-term “report card” on Walz’s climate policies. The report was crit...

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