If you’ve made a concerted effort to increase the efficiency of your home, you understand the positive impact it can have on your family’s budget.

The air quality in some of our most beautiful spaces is threatened by pollution from Minnesota’s coal-fired power plants and taconite iron ore processing facilities. And even though the Clean Air Act requires it, the parks may soon lack protection under Minnesota law.

Minnesota’s Renewable Electricity Standard faces a new threat this legislative session. A bill introduced on Monday would allow utilities to meet the standard with large scale hydropower imported from Manitoba, North Dakota, and Montana.

Republican Congressman Steve King is the latest in a growing list of bipartisan governors, federal policymakers, and Fortune 500 companies calling for an expedient renewal of a key provision for wind power, the Production Tax Credit, a tax-lowering provision applied to wind power production.

Energy stories in the news this week covered everything from wind and electric vehicle tax credits to the huge number of advance orders for the new Tesla.

There are a lot of new lighting options out there today, so Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) has created the Right Light Guide to help you find your way through the lighting aisle at the hardware store.

The United States has a pollution problem. Nearly 37 million American children live in places with unhealthy, polluted air. Pollution-related illnesses are on the rise. Smokestacks continue to dump massive quantities of pollutants that cause disease and death.

We applaud Senator Amy Klobuchar’s February 9 floor speech that championed clean energy and smart policy. Now it’s your turn.

Minnesota has benefited from a strong, forward-looking foundation of clean energy policy for the last 20 years. But some of these commonsense policies are under attack at the Legislature.

You may know about the flurry of action surrounding a new federal transportation bill that has consumed Washington over the last month. You may not know that this sudden urgency erupted 869 days after the current federal transportation bill officially expired.