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CURE (Clean Up the River Environment)
Organizing Citizens to Restore and Protect the Minnesota River Basin
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It wasn't always like this. In 1860, Minnesota's landscape was about one-third prairie.
Today, a blink forward in human history, it's about a third row crops — mostly corn and soybeans to feed all kinds of animals that aren't humans. About 11 percent is grass, and not all of that is prairie grassland.
There's one reason for this mass shift in land use: agriculture. Specifically, animal agriculture.
How Minnesota's land use contributes to climate change
mprnews.org
Agriculture is the dominant use of Minnesota's land. But people don't directly eat most of what that land produces, which is symptomatic of a major worldwide climate threat.Angela Sylla, resident across the road from this Wisconsin sand frac mine has taken her own samples to send to a lab - not waiting for the State to act. This sludge is incredibly thick and clogging ditches, covering fields and full of toxic chemicals. Thte Trempealeau River flows into the Mississippi River and this is why our work is never done at CURE.
lacrossetribune.com
State and local authorities are working to determine the environmental impact after about 10 million gallons of sludge was released from a settling pond to rescue a worker at aWe still need s few more vetoes from Governor Dayton, give him a call today!
Sierra Club North Star Chapter
The MN legislative session is over! And tomorrow, Governor Mark Dayton sits down at his desk to sign bills into law. Tell him to veto bills that cut community solar, raid the environmental trust fund,...