By Elliott Askari-Rabe March 19, 2019 On March 6, students and adults alike gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol for the Youth Climate Justice Summit. The event is held yearly, and is organized by Climate Generation, a Minneapolis based climate advocacy group. The event was sponsored by numerous other climate groups, including iMatter, Yea MN, MN […]
By Mira Klein February 21, 2019 Urgent and unabashedly progressive climate politics have come to Minnesota — or at least they’ve finally made it into the chambers of the Minnesota State Capitol. Just a few days after the outline for a federal Green New Deal was unveiled on the national stage, spearheaded by Sen. Ed […]
By Hannah Jones February 13, 2019 When their session ended on Monday afternoon, Minnesota legislators exiting the House chambers came face-to-face with a crowd of mostly teens, wearing backpacks, holding banners, and leading a thunderous round of chants. “We need a Green New Deal, we need a Green New Deal, to save us from the […]
By Dana Ferguson February 12, 2019 ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday, Feb. 12, announced that his administration would petition the Public Utilities Commission to reconsider its certificate of need for the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline project, allowing a Dayton administration appeal to move forward. The decision fueled excitement in environmental and tribal […]
By Beret Leone February 11, 2019 SAINT PAUL, Minn. (KTTC) – Young people across the country are making their voices heard in the political sphere, it even happened Monday in Minnesota. Members of the group “Minnesota Can’t Wait” gathered in front of the house chambers at the state Capital demanding action to combat climate change. […]
By Priya Dalal-Whelan, Maddy Fernands and Shahad Geer February 5, 2019 In his first week in office, Gov. Tim Walz met with us and 150+ other youth concerned about the threats posed by climate change to our future. He declared that he “ran unabashedly that climate change will kill the planet and stop our futures […]
Air Date: Week of January 18, 2019 Youth activists in Minnesota aren’t waiting to see what may happen with a national Green New Deal. Through a group called Minnesota Can’t Wait, they’re starting a conversation with Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) about transitioning the state away from fossil fuels, while creating clean energy jobs and other […]
By Elizabeth Dunbar January 10, 2019 https://media.climategen.org/20190110-mprnews-dunbar-youth-climate-gov-walz.mp3 A group of passionate Minnesota teenagers hopes 2019 will be the year state government gets serious about climate change. Dozens of high school students from across the state packed the governor’s office for a meeting Wednesday, urging Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Minnesota Pollution Control […]
By Hannah Jones January 9, 2019 More than a few people have tried to tell Maddy Fernands, a sophomore at Edina High School, that she has been worrying over nothing. While door-knocking to support legislation addressing climate change, she’s been told that “you never know” what the future will actually bring, and that what we’re […]
By Frank Jossi January 10, 2019 A group of high school students Wednesday asked Minnesota’s new governor to pass an executive order to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and propose a plan to reduce the impact of climate change by promoting renewable energy. A coalition of groups led by the clean change youth organization iMatter and […]