Published: March 5, 2010
Tags: Dan Fedderly, I-94, Lake Wissota Business Park, Minnesota, northwest Wisconsin, Ramberg, Stelzner, transit, Twin Cities, Wisconsin County Highway Association, Wisconsin County Highway Association Inc., Wisconsin I-94 Corridor Commission
By Sean Ryan
Quick growth in northwest Wisconsin is overwhelming Interstate 94 with traffic congestion that threatens development and irks highway commissioners.
The I-94 corridor between Eau Claire and the Twin Cities connects bedroom communities in Wisconsin to jobs in Minnesota. But the corridor has no public transit links.
Tim Ramberg, St. Croix County highway commissioner, said the [...]
Published: February 16, 2010
Tags: Black Dog Plant, CH2M Hill Inc., coal, conversion, Minnesota, natural gas, power plant, Riverside Plant, St. Paul High Bridge Plant, Xcel Energy
By Bob Geiger
Dolan Media Newswires
Minneapolis — Xcel Energy’s Black Dog Plant is expected to become an all-natural, gas-powered facility, significantly cutting emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury and carbon in the Minnesota River Valley.
Part of the Burnsville plant, originally designed in the 1950s to burn coal, was converted in 2002 to gas, which cut [...]
Published: February 8, 2010
Tags: College City Remodeling, contractors, Lumber One, Minnesota, prevailing wage, Project ReEnergize, Tri-County Action Program, Weatherization Assistance Program
By Brian Johnson
Dolan Media Newswires
Minneapolis — Jim Green sees nothing efficient about the paperwork involved in some stimulus-paid weatherization programs.
Green is a vice president with Lumber One, a St. Cloud-area building and remodeling firm.
Lumber One has participated in both the Weatherization Assistance Program, which provides energy upgrades for low-income homes, and Project ReEnergize, which offered rebates [...]
Published: January 19, 2010
Tags: Asian carp, Chicago, Chicago River, Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Lake Michigan, locks, Minnesota, National Resources Defense Council, New York, Ohio, Ontario, preliminary injunction, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Supreme Court, Wisconsin
By John Flesher
AP Environmental Writer
Traverse City, Mich. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to order immediate closure of shipping locks near Chicago to prevent Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes.
The court rejected a request by Michigan for a preliminary injunction to close the locks temporarily while a long-term solution is sought to [...]
By Bob Geiger
Dolan Media Newswires
Minneapolis — Eden Prairie-based Westwood Renewables has been picked by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to design and engineer the state’s largest photovoltaic array on underutilized land.
The project is a 2-megawatt solar layout on a closed landfill in Olmsted County near Rochester. The solar array, which would be the first state [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin legislators say Minnesota officials have rejected a plan to continue tax reciprocity.
Wisconsin and Minnesota had an agreement that allowed taxpayers who live in one state but work in the other to file one income tax return. The two states then reimbursed each other.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty ended the deal this [...]
Published: October 15, 2009
Tags: biomass, ethanol, Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro, Minnesota, We Energies, wind, Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance, Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group, Wisconsin Power & Light Co., Wisconsin Public Service Corp.
Paul Snyder
paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com
A renewable energy research partnership between Wisconsin and Manitoba could fuel advances in the field while giving utilities an opening to build projects outside the state.
Gov. Jim Doyle on Thursday signed an agreement with Manitoba Premier Gary Doer for the state and Canadian province to promote extended trade partnerships and collaborate on, among other [...]
Published: September 14, 2009
Tags: Minnesota, Minnesota Department of Transportation, road construction, road repairs, The Road Information Program
Brian Johnson
Dolan Media Newswires
Minneapolis — Minnesota’s roads are deteriorating, congestion is getting worse, safety is an increasing concern, money is lacking and crumbling infrastructure is hitting state residents in the pocketbook, according to a new report from The Road Information Program.
TRIP, a Washington, D.C.-based transportation research group, found that “many sorely needed transportation projects” in [...]
Published: September 8, 2009
Tags: Cemstone Products Co., Minn., Minnesota, North Country Concrete Inc., pervious concrete, Shoreview
Comments: 2
Brian Johnson
Dolan Media Newswires
The eyes of the world, it seems, are on a $1.4 million paving project in Shoreview, Minn.
Construction groups, civil engineers and public works officials are touring the job site. Just the other day, a group from Sacramento, Calif., flew in to take a look at the project. There’s even an eye-catching video [...]
Published: September 4, 2009
Tags: Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota, recession, revenue, spending, state budgets
Bill Clements and Charley Shaw
Dolan Media Co.
World War II jolted the U.S. out of its last massive financial crisis. But with no global war to propel a recovery this time, states are scrambling to staunch the red ink splashing across their budget sheets.
In state after state, politicians and budget officers are dealing with dangerous declines [...]
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