Legislation

End of legislative session update, May 17, 2010: Click here to read MEP's end of session news release and summary.

The Minnesota Environmental Partnership, a coalition of more than 80 conservation and environmental nonprofit organizations, comes together each year to select priority issues for the upcoming legislative session.  For the 2010 legislative session, MEP’s member groups have voted to work collaboratively on the following priority issues:

Complete Streets: Making Roads Safer for All Minnesotans, ensuring that streets and roads are designed to support more walking, bicycling and clean transportation choices to protect Minnesota’s lakes, rivers, and air quality;

Safe Mines: Protecting Our Water from Toxic Mining Pollution, requiring a damage deposit from new toxic-producing mining operations to protect Minnesota taxpayers from potential pollution clean-up costs;

Defending Minnesota’s Environmental Policy Foundation, including upholding Minnesota’s restrictions on new nuclear and coal-fired power plants;  

Safeguarding Minnesota’s Great Outdoors Legacy, assuring traditional long-term investments for our lakes, forests and natural areas, and protecting against raids of constitutionally-protected funds.

To read more about MEP’s priority issues, click here to download a PDF of the 2010 MEP Legislative Priorities Briefing Packet.

MEP member groups also work on many other environmental and conservation issues during the legislative session.  Information about these additional legislative issues can be found in the MEP Member Issues section of the Legislative Priorities Briefing Packet.

 

Past MEP legislative priorities – read all about environmental and conservation issues that MEP and our member groups have worked on during past legislative sessions.

2009 Briefing Book (PDF)
2008 Briefing Book
2007 Briefing Book
2006 Briefing Book
2005 Briefing Book
2004 Briefing Book
2003 Briefing Book
2002 Briefing Book