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• Manganese test mine begins in Emily, Minn.
  Work began this week at a demonstration mining project in the town of Emily in central Minnesota.November 17, 2010
• Court rejects challenge to Prairie Island upgrades
  The Minnesota Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge to Xcel Energy's plans to upgrade its Prairie Island nuclear power plant.November 16, 2010
• Minn. town takes on energy conservation challenge
  Residents of the small western Minnesota town of Rothsay are part of a unique energy conservation experiment that could cut their energy consumption by 15 percent.November 12, 2010
• Report: White House altered drilling safety report
  The Interior Department's inspector general says the White House edited a drilling safety report in a way that made it falsely appear that scientists and experts supported the idea of the administration's six-month ban on new drilling.November 10, 2010
• Ethanol credit may be target for Republican House
  A Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and other election victories yesterday may spell trouble for U.S. subsidies that benefit ethanol producers, after the party pledged to cut government spending.November 3, 2010
• Turbine plant's shutdown part of a larger slowdown in wind energy
  The shutdown of a wind turbine plant in southwestern Minnesota is part of a general slowdown in wind energy.November 2, 2010
• Green job hype? Pipestone wind turbine plant idled
  Wind-turbine maker Suzlon Group is laying off its remaining 110 workers at its Pipestone plant "because the once-booming U.S. wind energy market has lost headway."November 2, 2010
• US wind power posts slowest quarter since 2007
  U.S. power-plant developers added wind power capacity in the third quarter at the slowest pace since 2007, reversing a trend of clean energy outpacing coal.October 29, 2010
• High winds too much for wind turbines
  Great River Energy officials say 61 turbines at the Prairie Star Wind Farm near Austin stopped operating for a time because of the powerful gusts.October 27, 2010
• Audit: Renewable energy grant program lacks focus
  Minnesota's legislative auditor says the Renewable Energy Development Fund needs clearer accountability and more open processes.October 22, 2010
• Solar energy helps power convention center
  The power switch has been flipped on what will become the largest solar farm in Minnesota. The farm will cover the space of two and a-half football fields. And it's being built far from the farm fields, in fact right in downtown Minneapolis.October 22, 2010
• Renewable energy fund to be graded on its success
  The Legislative Auditor releases a report Friday on how well the state's Renewable Energy Development Fund is meeting its goals.October 22, 2010
• Judge dismisses suit over oil pipeline expansions
  A federal judge in Minnesota has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the permits for oil pipelines being built by Enbridge Energy in the Upper Midwest.October 21, 2010
• Minnesota state agencies boost E85 consumption
  Minnesota state agencies have boosted their purchases of E85 fuel nearly tenfold in the last five years.October 19, 2010
• Prairie Island clears hurdle toward 20-year extension
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rejected claims that Xcel Energy's safety record so poor enough that the life of the plant should not be extended.October 14, 2010

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