Tell MN Regulators: We need 100% Carbon Free Energy
No Polluting Power // No False Solutions
➡️ Add your name by Wednesday, July 24th! ⬅️
In early 2023, Minnesota passed the “100% Carbon-Free by 2040 Energy Standard” (Minn. Stat. § 216B.1691), and many in the climate community celebrated it as a crucial win on the path to reducing our state’s carbon emissions with the promise to address the ongoing and growing threat of climate change. However, the 100% Law left many critical definitions and processes undefined.
Now, the MN Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is tasked with figuring out what “technology neutral” means and answering vital questions about what the 100% Law will mean in practice—
- What technologies and facilities will be included, and what must be phased out entirely?
- What fuels will we use, and what must stay in the ground?
- Who will benefit from the carbon-free transition, and who will bear the costs?
Unfortunately, fossil fuel and other extractive industries see an opportunity in the uncertainty of the 100% Law. To maintain their dominance and profits in the rebuilt energy system, polluting industries are promoting a wide variety of technological “fixes” that make unproven promises about reducing carbon emissions while continuing to pollute and extract from our communities and environment.
If we want the 100% Law to live up to its promise of a clean, renewable energy future, YOU need to tell the PUC what 100% Carbon Free REALLY means to Minnesotans across the state. Otherwise, polluting and extractive industries will hijack the 100% Law to adopt climate “false solutions” that move Minnesota backward—like burning wood or garbage for energy or slapping risky and underperforming “carbon capture” equipment on aging coal plants in the name of “clean coal.”
Tell the PUC that they must ensure that the implementation of the 100% Law lays the groundwork for an energy future in Minnesota that prioritizes the health, well-being, and resilience of our communities, not the interests and profits of monopoly utilities and polluting industries.
🎥 WATCH & LEARN MORE 🎥
“What’s 100% Carbon Free Energy?” Presented by public health and environmental justice, community-based organizations that are working together to educate and mobilize Minnesotans around the implementation of the 100% Carbon Free Energy by 2040 law.
Do you have more thoughts on 100% Carbon Free Energy that you want to let the MN PUC know?
Use the 100% Carbon Free Energy TOOLKIT to learn more about the “100% Carbon Free Energy by 2040 Law,” goals of the law implementation, topics open to comment, and how to submit your own comment to the MN PUC.
