The dispute over mining Minnesota’s world-class mineral deposits is drawing big crowds to the public hearings on the new Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement. All those minerals —...

At 8:30 p.m. local time on March 23, perhaps two billion people will recognize Earth Hour by turning off lights. It will be a time to consider our obligation to the earth’s environment in light of...

Drivers cringe while watching the dollar total rise at the gas pump. Their complaints mount in newspaper letters and at the offices of their state and federal lawmakers. The current turmoil in the Middle...

Today, representatives from most of the worldâÄôs nations will meet in a U.N.-sponsored Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, in an effort to reach an agreement to address global warming....

In an Aug. 29 column published in the Star Tribune ("Let’s not get all aglow about nuclear power"), would-be nuclear engineer, Nick Coleman thinks nuclear power is a glowing "pig in a poke." He refers...

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has just approved the $2 billion Cape Wind project, which will place 130 turbines off the coast of Cape Cod. The project will receive large taxpayer subsidies...