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Biden administration moves to protect Alaska wilderness; opening statements and first witness in NY trial; SCOTUS hears Starbucks case, with implications for unions on the line; rural North Carolina town gets pathway to home ownership.

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The Supreme Court weighs cities ability to manage a growing homelessness crisis, anti-Israeli protests spread to college campuses nationwide, and more states consider legislation to ban firearms at voting sites and ballot drop boxes.

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Wyoming needs more educators who can teach kids trade skills, a proposal to open 40-thousand acres of an Ohio forest to fracking has environmental advocates alarmed and rural communities lure bicyclists with state-of-the-art bike trail systems.

Minnesota Prepares for 45th Annual Earth Day

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015   

ST. PAUL, Minn. - With spring-like weather being enjoyed across Minnesota, residents are busy making plans and getting ready for next month's 45th annual Earth Day celebration.

There will be a number of events in communities across the state that people can get involved in, although Steven Giddings with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) says anyone, anywhere, can make a difference every day.

"You don't think about things like leaking toilets, but there's a lot of water conservation that can occur by fixing that," he says. "Or something as simple as making sure your tires are inflated to the proper pressure on your car. Those types of things."

Earth Day is now the largest civic observance in the world, with more than one billion people participating in related activities each year.

Giddings says among the events MPCA staff will be leading is the 26th annual Lafayette Park clean-up in St. Paul on April 22.

"This is something we do in coordination with our Lafayette Park neighbors," says Giddings. "Last year we had a clean-up and recovered over 4,800 pounds of trash from the neighborhood, and it involved over 180 people."

There are nearly six million tons of waste generated in Minnesota each year, with 1.7 million tons of that ending up in landfills.


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