FMR Updates

FMR Updates
Where the Legislature stands on water & the environment in its final week

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This 2017 Legislature has featured a series of sweeping assaults on our environment, including widespread rollbacks to bedrock environmental finance and policy positions that threaten to undermine water quality and river health throughout the state. Here's where things stand.
 

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Gov. Dayton vetoes awful environmental bill! (But another is on the way.)

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Friday, May 12, Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a historically bad omnibus environment bill. It sought to give polluters the right to write their own environmental impact statements, slashed funding for environmental agencies and even prevented cities from banning plastic bags. In short, it threatened to undermine Minnesota’s long tradition of protecting the water we drink and the air we breathe. 

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Stand with FMR at the Governor's Residence - May 15, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

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Come show your support for clean water! Join us in front of the Governor’s Residence at 1006 Summit Avenue, St. Paul. Feel free to bring signs, family and friends. But please RSVP if you can!

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Clean water advocates remind Gov. Dayton to stay strong at the Governor's Residence.
Why are MN's largest companies leading the charge to roll back our environmental protections?

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The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce has led many of this legislative session's attacks on our environment. Do the heads of Target, Best Buy, 3M, Medtronic, U.S. Bank, General Mills, Ecolab, Xcel Energy, Hormel and Delta Air Lines know what's being done in their name? 

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Tell Minnesota companies to #KeepMNClean and #ProtectOurWater.
Pollution Control Agency chief: Anti-environment bills put politics ahead of science

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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Commissioner recently penned a thoughtful commentary on the threat of anti-environmental legislation moving forward at the Minnesota Legislature this session.

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Act now: Save the buffers! Protect our waters

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