Minnesota Environmental News

Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
News Brief: Geochemists reveal how nanoparticles evolve and change
...s Jennifer Soltis, Michele Conroy, and Frances Smith, along with R. Lee Penn from the University of Minnesota, have organized a symposium on nanoparticle react...

Wednesday, March 30th, 2016
E.P.A. Declares Nutrient Recycling Challenge Winners
...ts Concentrated Bio-solids via AnSBEARs (by Bo Hu, Hongjian Lin, and Xin Zhang of the University of Minnesota) - Creating a dry biosolids fertilizer by using a...

Friday, March 18th, 2016
E.P.A. Declares $1 Million in Pollution Prevention Backing for Great Lakes States
...ximately $1 million in backing to support pollution prevention work in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. This competitive grant plan...

Thursday, March 17th, 2016
E.P.A. Appoints Diverse Board of Experts to Help Develop National Electronic System to Track Hazardous Waste Shipments
...• John Ridgway, Plan Manager, Washington State Department of Ecology • Joshua Burman, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; • Thomas Baker,...

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
E.P.A. Acknowledges CEMEX in Clinchfield, Ga. for Achieving 2015 Energy Star Certification
...igh Cement, Union Bridge (cement) Massachusetts: Ardagh Group, Milford (container glass) Minnesota: ConAgra Foods, Park Rapids (frozen fried potat...

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
E.P.A. Acknowledges 4 Facilities in Florida for Achieving 2015 Energy Star Certification
...igh Cement, Union Bridge (cement) Massachusetts: Ardagh Group, Milford (container glass) Minnesota: ConAgra Foods, Park Rapids (frozen fried potat...

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
E.P.A. Declares 2015 Energy Star Certified Manufacturing Plants
...igh Cement, Union Bridge (cement) Massachusetts: Ardagh Group, Milford (container glass) Minnesota: ConAgra Foods, Park Rapids (frozen fried potat...

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
E.P.A. Acknowledges Nissan and Toyota Manufacturing Plants in Mississippi for Achieving 2015 Energy Star Certification
...yland: Lehigh Cement, Union Bridge (cement) Massachusetts: Ardagh Group, Milford (container glass) Minnesota: ConAgra Foods, Park Rapids (frozen fried potato ...

Monday, January 4th, 2016
Beauty of science displayed in yearly PNNL calendar
...m EMSL, PNNL, DOE's Joint Genome Institute, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Universities of Minnesota and Missouri. Funded by DOE's Office of Biologica...