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Data Center on the ballot 🗳️ + CURE sues BOP ⚖️ + PUC Orders REC to Stop ⚡️ + Ag drainage lawsuit dismissed 💧 + GRE IRP lowdown 🤔
🗳 Data Centers are on the ballot this November This election season ask candidates where they stand on data centers. Will they support strong statewide rules to protect our water, demand transparency, end tax breaks, require clean energy from the start, and give local communities a real voice? Minnesota’s 2025 data center law fell short.
State Regulators tell Minnesota Valley Cooperative Light & Power Association to stop unlawful disconnection threats to Upper Sioux Community
MN PUC Commissioners urge electric co-op members to use their power to rein in Minnesota Valley leadership’s “bad behavior” After two years of delays, threats, and legal battles, the Upper Sioux Community (Community) achieved a significant victory last week when the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruled that Minnesota Valley Cooperative Light & Power Association
The Good, The Bad, and The Confusing: Great River Energy’s 2026–2040 Integrated Resource Plan
Great River Energy (GRE) is helping move Minnesota toward a cleaner energy future, but its current proposed plan still has room for improvement. GRE is a generation and transmission energy cooperative that supplies electricity to approximately 1.7 million Minnesotans across roughly two-thirds of the state’s geography. As an electric cooperative (co-op), GRE is self-governed by
MN Judge rules state pollution control agency lacks authority to regulate water pollution from public ag drainage systems
In a recent decision, a Minnesota judge accepted the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s (MPCA) argument that it does not have the authority to regulate public agricultural drainage systems, infrastructure that aids crop production but funnels significant water pollution into Minnesota’s lakes, rivers, streams, and drinking water. Ramsey County District Court Judge Leonardo Castro’s said in
Data Center Laws 🏛️ + Talon Nickel Mine 💧+ Silver Rapids ⚠️
🏛 Unfinished work: Data Center Laws MN Needs Minnesota’s 2025 data center law left major gaps that put communities, water, and local decision-making at risk. As lawmakers look ahead to the 2027 session, CURE is calling for stronger protections: a statewide permitting process, full environmental review, clean energy requirements, water use transparency, community safeguards, limits
U.S. Bureau of Prisons fails to fulfill FOIA request for 7+ months. CURE sues.
People in Appleton deserve to know the foreseeable impacts of reopening the Prairie Correctional Facility CURE has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for failing to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In January 2026, CURE submitted a request to BOP for information related to a 2014 environmental and economic
