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CLIMATE CHANGE

Volunteers improve habitat in hopes sharp-tailed grouse will return.
Noted forestry researcher says Minnesota will resemble Kansas by 2070 if the world doesn't reduce carbon emissions.
The Bemidji Chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby will hold a "Healthy Forests, Healthy Climate" event from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, April, 27, at the Northwest Indian Community Development Center.
Dana Ashford-Kornburger, national climate coordinator for USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, said money from the Inflation Reduction Act will provide more funding for EQIP, CSP and more.

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The USDA has put $3.1 billion into 141 projects expected to reach more than 60,000 farms and sequester as much carbon as removing 12 million gas-powered passenger vehicles from the road.
Minnesota dairy farmer Steve Schlangen and beef producer Don Schiefelbein say farmers need to be involved in environmental policy, even if they don't buy into all the climate change theories.
The sun has the power to give us what we need, but it’s also powerful enough to disrupt our way of life here on earth.
The RIPE proposal offers conservation payments of at least $100 an acre while producing a crop $100 an animal unit for livestock. It might be the incentive needed for increased buy-in.
A University of Minnesota Sea Grant scientist has developed a widget to predict when it will occur. Sort of.
A bipartisan group of Senate lawmakers is backing a bill to explore the feasibility of smaller “advanced” reactors.

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One Alexandria climate activist said the state "glossed over" the lack of progress in reducing emissions from agriculture.
North Dakota officials are preparing to file a lawsuit against Minnesota on the grounds that the law interferes with their ability to sell coal and natural gas.
A bill being fast-tracked by Democrats through the Legislature would require Minnesota utilities to have carbon-free electricity generation. It now awaits a vote of the full Senate.

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