WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Maple Grove, MINNESOTA Today President Biden announced that Great River Energy (GRE) has been selected as a finalist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program, a novel program of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. GRE's selection lines up the utility to procure 1,275 megawatts of clean energy across rural communities in Minnesota and North Dakota, includi more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Aug. 30 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies that make Minnesota a freer, more prosperous and better-governed state, issued the following commentary: * * * South Dakota Court Rules Against Eminent Domain for Carbon Pipeline Written by Tom Steward The controversial Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline aiming to send emissions from 57 ethanol plants in five states for storage underground more PR

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Sept. 5 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies that make Minnesota a freer, more prosperous and better-governed state, issued the following commentary on Sept. 4, 2024: * * * UND Student Sues Feds Over Race-Based Scholarship Program Written by Tom Steward A University of North Dakota student has joined a University of Wisconsin student in challenging the constitutionality of a race-b more PR

FARGO, North Dakota, Sept. 4 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of North Dakota issued the following news release: A broad coalition of labor, workers' rights and gender justice organizations -- including the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Women's Law Center and the ACLU of North Dakota -- filed an amicus brief on Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in support of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) regulations implementing the landmark Pr more PR