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With the delivery of its report to the Minnesota Legislature last month, the Clean Transportation Standard Work Group created a state policy framework for reducing carbon pollution from transport...

https://freshwater.org/2024/03/06/how-a-clean-transportation-fuel-standard-could-impact-minnesota-waters/

by Alyssa Fabia, Tribal Outreach and Research Associate Held January 11-12, 2024, this pre-legislative session Policy Summit arose out of lessons learned during last year’s victories and stumbl...

https://freshwater.org/2024/01/16/policy-summit-for-climate-energy-and-environmental-justice-advocates/

by John Roterman, Freshwater Tribal State Liaison  The Manoomin-Psin Knowledge Symposium at Black Bear Casino was held on November 13 and 14 and attended by nearly 300 attendees, including sever...

https://freshwater.org/2023/12/18/reflections-on-the-manoomin-psin-knowledge-symposium/

Freshwater is partnering with Hamline University and the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment for a transformative project designed to empower Minnesota teachers to integrate ...

https://freshwater.org/2023/12/15/freshwater-helps-minnesota-teachers-embrace-nature-based-learning/

Focus groups and community meetings gather input on drinking water governance The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is currently developing a 10-year drinking water plan to better manage drink...

https://freshwater.org/2023/12/13/freshwater-helps-develop-state-drinking-water-plan/

In order to build new partnerships and identify shared goals, Freshwater led a Minnesota delegation to this year’s One Water Summit in Tucson, Arizona, held November 14-16. Organized by the ......

https://freshwater.org/2023/11/21/freshwater-leads-minnesota-delegation-to-one-water-summit/

U of M and Freshwater researchers to evaluate injection wells, infiltration basins With groundwater shortages becoming a concern in some areas of the state, researchers at the University of Minne...

https://freshwater.org/2023/09/25/new-study-will-map-potential-to-recharge-aquifers/

Groundwater governance project enters next phase with focus on tribal engagement, intergovernmental collaboration Freshwater has begun a second phase of work to build capacity for groundwater gov...

https://freshwater.org/2023/08/03/groundwater-governance-phase-2/

Minnesota’s historic 2023 session and what’s next for water When the Minnesota Legislature adjourned on May 22, the session was applauded by many conservation groups for providing significant...

https://freshwater.org/2023/06/12/results-of-freshwaters-state-policy-work/

  Freshwater has been awarded $1.5 million from the Great Lakes Protection Fund for a 5-year effort to improve water quality in the Maumee, St. Louis and Saginaw River watersheds, ... Read more ...

https://freshwater.org/2023/05/25/great-lakes-protection-fund-project/