Portions of the East Hillside and Endion neighborhoods have the highest childhood elevated blood lead level rates in the state, at 9.1% and 9.2%, respectively.
Produced as part of the @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social 2025 Data fellowship.
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On Monday, some employees at the freshwater lab received reassignments to other offices within the agency and relocation was not required. But others have not, sparking fear of looming layoffs.
The EPA placed several of its Duluth laboratory employees on leave for signing a letter criticizing the Trump administration’s politicization of the agency, a move the union and Democratic politicians said violates federal workers’ free speech.
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Over 10 years, the bill will increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion, cut Medicaid spending by $1 trillion and lead to 11.8 million more uninsured people, the Congressional Budget Office said.
Chris Dunham, The Nature Conservancy’s associate director of resilience forestry in Northeastern Minnesota, said a post-fire landscape provides “a restoration opportunity” amid climate change and biodiversity loss.
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A wildfire is burning near Brimson in eastern St. Louis County, about 20 miles northwest of Two Harbors
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Last year, there were 14,500 AmeriCorps members in Minnesota and 8,400 in Wisconsin, but it is unclear how many in each state were affected by the $400 million in cuts on April 25. The cuts hit several Northland organizations that rely on AmeriCorps members
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Republican Keri Heintzeman and DFLer Denise Slipy face off for the seat vacated by Sen. Justin Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, who resigned and was charged with attempting to solicit a minor.
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
The fees would have had a significant effect on shipping in the Port of Duluth-Superior, as two-thirds of the port calls made by oceangoing cargo ships — salties — last year were made by ships built in China. Additionally, Canada has 17 lakers built in China, some of which regularly stop here.
As the federal government shrinks to “essential functions,” @kayleefabulous.bsky.social is about to lose her job as a park ranger supporting public safety and maritime education.
Sea Grant programs, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System and Coastal Zone Management Grants would not be not funded under the White House's passback budget. All of those conduct work in Lake Superior, along its north and south shores, and in the estuary.
Time for @racketmn.com to put one up with @jayboller.bsky.social on it
I have another question about the map.
The order to boost logging on national forest land included a map that made no distinction between wilderness areas, where logging is banned, and non-wilderness
The USDA later clarified that it would reduce the BWCAW's high-risk wildfire areas with prescribed burns and other methods, not logging
From 1990 to 2020, Minnesota and Wisconsin saw the WUI area grow 31.4% and 41%, respectively. Similarly, the number of homes in WUIs jumped 31% in Minnesota and 33.6% in Wisconsin over those 30 years.
Most counties in NE MN and NW WI saw those figures jump by double-digit percentages over 30 years.
The number of homes in the wildland-urban interface, or WUI — where development and vegetation meet and where wildfires present an increased risk to people and property — is growing throughout the Northland.
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no way! I live in duluth! Small world.
U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Hermantown, who has supported President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's cuts, said he would stick to telephone town halls.
While they support bolstering the U.S. shipbuilding industry, officials warned millions of dollars in fees each time a Chinese-built ship stops at a U.S. port would threaten Great Lakes shipping.
Protesters urged the federal government to keep the facility open and offered support for its nearly 150 employees whose future was thrown into uncertainty last week when reports surfaced that the agency would cut its science and research arm.
Trump has entertained the privatization of the USPS, while Postmaster General DeJoy has signed an agreement with Elon Musk's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency to find "efficiencies."
Cleveland-Cliffs said it would temporarily idle two of its Iron Range mines and pellet plants and lay off 630 workers.
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The EPA has drafted plans to "eliminate" the Office of Research and Development and up to 75% of its staff.
The ORD includes the EPA's Duluth lab and its 136 employees. The lab develops scientific protocols used worldwide to measure how toxic chemicals affect the environment.
From 2021: (spoiler, they didn't make it by 2025)
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The mercury limits, finalized a year ago under the Biden administration but in the works for several decades, were included in a list of regulations targeted by the EPA as part of what it called "the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States."
Compared to Ontario, Manitoba has responded less aggressively to U.S. tariffs. Its financial minister instructed Manitoba Hydro to seek Cabinet approval before extending existing or entering into new power purchasing agreements with the U.S.
There's a decade left in MN Power's existing agreement.
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator said on Wednesday, a day before many tariffs were delayed by another month, that it "has received no confirmation from federal agencies regarding the duties’ applicability to electricity or who will be responsible for paying or collecting them.”
