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		<title>Clean Water and Property Rights Case&#8212;Sacket vz. EPA Heard By SCOTUS Today!</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2012/01/09/clean-water-and-property-rights-case-sacket-vz-epa-heard-by-scotus-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sackett v. EPA Jonathan H. Adler • January 9, 2012 8:10 am Today the Supreme Court hears oral argument in Sackett v. EPA, a challenge to the federal government’s claim that landowners (and other regulated entities) may not obtain pre-enforcement review of an administrative compliance order under the Clean Water Act.  I previewed the case before.  Here is how the WSJ reports on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing Environmentalism with Don Parmeter: Congress May Push Back on Expansion of Federal Power over Minnesota Water and Land</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2011/11/21/reinventing-environmentalism-with-don-parmeter-congress-may-push-back-on-expansion-of-federal-power-over-minnesota-water-and-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mnfmi.org/?p=9465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The battle over federal jurisdiction of water and lands under the 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act is expected to be taken to the floor of the U.S. Senate as early as next week.  The debate has raged between Congress and the Obama Administration since the defeat of the expansive Clean Water Restoration Act, authored by former Minnesota Congressman James [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Political Allocation of Capital: RFK Jr and BrightSource by Bill Glahn</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2011/11/17/the-political-allocation-of-capital-rfk-jr-and-brightsource-by-bill-glahn/</link>
		<comments>http://mnfmi.org/2011/11/17/the-political-allocation-of-capital-rfk-jr-and-brightsource-by-bill-glahn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a day when Nobel-prize winner and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is on the hot seat on Capitol Hill, answering questions about the Solyndra scandal, details are coming out about an even larger, potential scandal. The U.K.&#8217;s Daily Mail reports about a $1.4 billion bailout for a firm tied to environmental lawyer and Presidential nephew Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  The Mail reports, &#8220;The revelation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snatching Environmental Defeat from the Jaws of Victory by Bill Glahn</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2011/11/08/snatching-environmental-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory-by-bill-glahn/</link>
		<comments>http://mnfmi.org/2011/11/08/snatching-environmental-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory-by-bill-glahn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving around this afternoon, I caught this story on Minnesota Public Radio (MPR).  With great sadness, MPR reports that Minnesota currently meets national air quality standards.  But don&#8217;t despair, big opportunities are coming to micromanage your lives (read more on Bill&#8217;s Blogspot&#8230;.) ]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Subsidies in Minnesota, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2011/10/25/9277/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Finance and Commerce, freelance writer Dan Haugen attempts to answer the question that I posed a couple of weeks ago.  Dan phrases the question from the point of view of two local solar manufacturers, &#8220;How will Silicon Energy and TenKsolar manage in oversupplied solar panel market?&#8221;  (Read more&#8230;.)]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing Environmentalism Event this Wed. Oct. 12 at the Kelly Inn with Don Parmeter</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2011/10/11/reinventing-evironmentalism-event-this-wed-oct-12-at-the-kelly-inn-with-don-parmeter/</link>
		<comments>http://mnfmi.org/2011/10/11/reinventing-evironmentalism-event-this-wed-oct-12-at-the-kelly-inn-with-don-parmeter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mnfmi.org/?p=9183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you agree that environmentalism needs a radical change in course, join us for an event tomorrow. Contact Don Parmeter  (612) 558 &#8211; 2859.  Call with any questions or comments. Reinventing Environmentalism 6-8 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 12 Kelly Inn, St. Paul &#160; Agenda 1.  Introductions 2.  Additions/changes to the agenda 3.  Review/Update of Issues: a.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Michael (the &#8220;Hockey Stick&#8221;) Mann: In Mpls Wednesday Oct. 12 at Convention Center. Join Us!</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2011/10/11/dr-michael-the-hockey-stick-mann-in-mpls-wednesday-oct-12-at-convention-center-join-us/</link>
		<comments>http://mnfmi.org/2011/10/11/dr-michael-the-hockey-stick-mann-in-mpls-wednesday-oct-12-at-convention-center-join-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Crockett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: KSTP did a short blurb on our rained out protest (hey,weather happens). We had great conversations with some curious geologists, some of whom agreed and some of whom did not but appreciated out concerns about scientific integrity. I had never met a geologist before! One smart grad student told me that academic geologists are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News Story Featuring David Strom: &#8216;Green&#8217; Recycling Company Bankrupt Weeks After Getting Millions</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2011/10/05/fox-news-story-featuring-david-strom-green-recycling-company-bankrupt-weeks-after-getting-millions/</link>
		<comments>http://mnfmi.org/2011/10/05/fox-news-story-featuring-david-strom-green-recycling-company-bankrupt-weeks-after-getting-millions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Crockett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Fox News in Mankato: Fox News covered this story featuring policy fellow David Strom. MANKATO, Minn. - What if you could find a way to make money off other people&#8217;s trash? On top of that, you&#8217;d be helping the environment, turning that trash, in this case plastic agricultural film, into anything from outdoor decks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Solyndra &#8211; Walmart Connection  By Paul Chesser — National Legal &amp; Policy Center blog</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2011/09/29/the-solyndra-walmart-connection-by-paul-chesser-%e2%80%94-national-legal-policy-center-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://mnfmi.org/2011/09/29/the-solyndra-walmart-connection-by-paul-chesser-%e2%80%94-national-legal-policy-center-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Crockett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot has been said about the ties of George Kaiser, a campaign contribution bundler for President Obama’s 2008 campaign, to the Solyndra bankruptcy scandal that likely has cost taxpayers $535 millionthanks to a Department of Energy loan guarantee. Kaiser’s investment firm, Argonaut Venture Capital, held over 35 percent of the failed solar company’s stock – more than anyone else. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Quiet Revolution: Oil Security is Within Our Grasp by Bill Glahn</title>
		<link>http://mnfmi.org/2011/09/27/a-quiet-revolution-oil-security-is-within-our-grasp-by-bill-glahn/</link>
		<comments>http://mnfmi.org/2011/09/27/a-quiet-revolution-oil-security-is-within-our-grasp-by-bill-glahn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Crockett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when it seems that all the news is bad, a ray a light peeks through the clouds.  Our dependence on foreign oil, a bugaboo for Presidents dating back to Nixon, has finally begun to recede.  And the biggest reason can be found next door inNorth Dakota. &#160; As with the natural gas revolution of [...]]]></description>
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