In Dec 2024, MN PUC approved Summit's 28-mi CO₂ pipeline, ignoring risks of boosting oil via Enhanced Oil Recovery. 🛢️ Now, Summit is saying it themselves: their pipeline would feed CO₂ to major oil basins to boost production through EOR. #MNPUC #Summit #CO2Pipeline #EOR #CCUS #DrillBabyDrill

🤖 Big Tech plans 12+ hyperscale data centers in MN! ⏰ MN lawmakers must protect our land, water, and communities! Act now at CURE's DataCentersMN.org! 👀 #MNLeg #BigTech #DataCenters #Transparency #TakeAction

📝 Just dropped: Field Notes — CURE’s Monthly Dispatch! This month featuring: ️🛢 Public Need! Not Big Oil Greed! 🤖 Even Robots Need Rules. Demand Data Center Action. 💧 Too Fast Too Furious: Unregulated Public Ag Drainage Systems Stay informed, stay engaged 👉 Read the full March edition.

The Upper Sioux Community built a large solar array 2 years ago, designing it so it would power a tribal business & not impact the local power grid. But, the Tribe's project has sparked major conflict with rural electric co-op, MN Valley Coop. Light & Power Assoc. #EnergySovereignty #SolarPower

⚡️Duluth resident Jenna Yeakle asks: who should MN’s energy future belong to? Her answer: the people who live here—not BlackRock or Big Tech. Read her op‑ed about charting our OWN course to a clean, reliable, affordable energy future. #PeoplePower #EnergyDemocracy #DuluthMN #CleanEnergy #MNPower

⚡Great River Energy leads with low-cost solutions, using "Smart Sensors" to unlock 60% more power line capacity, boosting wind & solar to homes & farms! 👏🌬️🌞 #CooperativePower #CleanEnergy #GridInnovation #MemberOwned #MNenergy #LowCostSolutions

Tomorrow, Minnesotans stand up everywhere—from cities to small towns—demanding leaders who work for people, not power or profit. Find your rally, bring a friend. Minnesota shows up. 🗣️🤝✊ 🇺🇸 #NoKings #PeoplePower #StandUpMN #MNStrong #FreeSpeech

What can Community Benefit Agreements (CBAs) do in the face of hyperscale data centers? What are their limits? 🧐 Get some clarity by watching our most recent webinar with Sarah K. Friedman (Better Data Center Project), Hudson Kingston (CURE), Sarah Mooradian (CURE). https://youtu.be/aA7aEzgaR9E

♻️💡 From the Iron Range: a MN company turns e‑waste into opportunity—recovering metals, creating jobs & protecting the planet. 🌱🔧 #IronRange #RuralInnovation #Ewaste #zerowaste #MinnesotaIngenuity

🤖 Google’s proposed hyperscale data center in Hermantown advanced under NDAs, hiding its impacts to water & power use. Bipartisan momentum is pushing to ban these kind of NDAs & ensure full environmental review. Minnesotans deserve answers. #NoMoreNDAs #DataCenters #MNLeg #MNPower #HermantownMN

Swing-spring means sap season! ❄️🌷 When temps rise above 30°, trees move sap. That sap becomes maple syrup for humans — and it’s also a favorite snack of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker!🪽 Look for 'corn on the cob' holes. 🍁 #WildlifeWednesday

The 2026 midterm elections have been in the news recently, with debate around Voter ID laws and mail-in voting deadlines at the federal level. 🗳️🇺🇸 We’re sharing what’s true about voting in Minnesota right now & will keep this page updated if things change. #MNVotes #MinnesotaElections #VotingRights

🍃🎁 Have you ever found something special along a trail? While walking along trails in the metro we came across these secret sculptures on logs!🚶🏽‍♀️ 🌳 We challenge you to make some nature art and share with us here...what will you make today? 🖼️

Energy bills are rising and so are utility profits. It raises a simple question: who is our energy system working for? Rural communities deserve affordable, transparent, people-first solutions. #EnergyJustice #RuralVoices #MNPolitics #CleanEnergy #UtilityAccountability

🏡 Join us Tuesday for the Data Centers & Community Benefit Agreements webinar! Discover what they are, their potential & limits, plus considerations for local governments negotiating with data center developers. 📝 Register 👉 https://bit.ly/DataCentersCBA #DataCenters #CommunityBenefitAgreements

💧 Today is World Water Day! "Where Water Flows, Equality Grows" highlights women protecting water. Flashback to 2018 where "Water Women & Democracy" united female water protectors shaping a fairer future! #WorldWaterDay #WhereWaterFlowsEqualityGrows #WaterWomenDemocracy #WaterIsLife #WomenInWater

⚠️ Hermantown and northern MN demand transparency on Google's data center amid secret NDAs and MN Power's hidden talks. 💧⚡🏡 📖 Read more from Racket. #Transparency #DataCenters #MNPower #BlackRock #Google #Hermantown #RuralVoices

What’s happening right now at the Minnesota legislature with #oil pipelines and why does it matter? 🤔🛢️ Watch our webinar, “Real World Need, Not Corporate Greed” on YouTube and hear from our friends at MCEA1974 and Three Waters Pipeline Resistance Team#oil #Minnesota #OilPipelines #ClimateAction

When the ice goes out on the waterfalls on the north shore we Minnesotans *know* spring is here - when do you think the ice will go out and the Gooseberry River waters will flow? 🧊😎 #GooseberryFalls #SpringInMN #NorthShoreMN #Waterfalls #NatureLovers #GetOutside #SpringThaw #CUREmn

Spring is here & migration is coming... what birds are you seeing out and about? 🐦🌱 #SpringMigration #BirdWatching #MinnesotaNature #CleanWater #CleanEnergy #Grassroots #GetOutside #NatureLovers #BirdsOfMinnesota

📝 While the anti-voter #SAVE Act faces unlikely odds in the U.S. Senate, it’s a good moment to reflect on the security of our electoral process and Minnesota’s commitment to making voting accessible for all citizens. 🗳️ #SAVEAct

👉 Tell MN lawmakers: approve pipelines only if real consumer demand exists—not oil company greed. Bills HF 4377 / SF 4554 protect rural Minnesotans. ✅🌾 https://curemn.org/need-not-greed #PeopleNotPollulters #MNLeg #PublicNeed #NotOilGreed

Eagan pauses new hyperscale data centers over energy demand, land use & community impact concerns. This is what it looks like when communities & decision-makers take a closer look before moving forward. #SustainableCommunities #CommunityVoices #LandUse #PublicEngagement #CUREmn

Riverview LLP—the state’s largest milk producer—plans to expand a Stevens Cty dairy to 19,000 cows 🐄🐄🐄💩💩💩. MN farmers & environmental advocates demand MPCA require a full EIS for clean water, communities & economy. Big changes deserve real oversight. 🌱💧 #PeopleNotPolluters #MPCA #EIS #IndustrialAg

It is a day where you see a lot of green but we keep our eyes out for BLUE! 💚🩵 🕰️ Like clockwork, Great Blue Herons, tend to appear in the Minnesota skies today, returning to nesting sites in clear, blue Minnesota waters. 🪺🌳🌊 #StPatricksDay #GreatBlueHeron #BirdWatching #SpringMigration #CUREmn

🔎 Find your Community Supported Agriculture TODAY! Eating locally grown food is good for you and the 🌎. Use the Minnesota Grown directory to find CSAs, farmers markets, pick-your-own farms & more: https://minnesotagrown.com/search-directory/ 🧺🥕🥬🍈 #MinnesotaGrown #EatLocal #SupportLocalFarmers

⚠️ 🛢 Join CURE, MCEA & Three Waters Pipeline Resistance Team for the “Real World Need, Not Corporate Greed: Oil Pipeline” webinar. Learn how you can add your voice to help! 💧✊ 🗓️ 3/18 | 6:30 PM Register 👉 https://bit.ly/NeedNotGreed #PeopleNotPolluters #OilPipelines #EnvironmentalJustice #MNLeg

In a world with more and more light polluting our night sky, dark skies are worth protecting 🌌 Ely’s Dark Skies Festival, March 19–22, celebrates the magic of northern night skies with stargazing, storytelling, and winter adventure ✨❄️🔭 #ProtectWhatWeLove #DarkSkies #ElyDarkSkies #ElyMN #NightSky

⚠️ 🛢️ The same oil that’s causing cancer in First Nations communities in Canada is the same oil that travels through northern MN in dangerous oil pipelines. Read this deep dive from NYT on the harms this industry continues to cause. #Line3 #OilSands #ProtectWater #EnvironmentalJustice #Cancer

🌊 Dissolved oxygen is tiny oxygen bubbles in water that fish breathe. When oxygen runs low in winter, fish kills can happen. When ice melts, fish breathe easier! 🫧🐟 #LakeLife #EcoEducation #WinterToSpring #FishHealth #LearnWithCURE #NatureLovers #ProtectWhatWeLove

🚨 Tell Gov. Walz, Lt. Gov. Flanagan & MN lawmakers: Pause hyperscale data center development! Study impacts before approval. Protect Minnesota's water, land, communities—not billionaires' pockets. 🛑💧🌲 #DataCenterMoratorium #ProtectMN #MNLeg #GovWalz #ProtectWhatWeLove

🌾💧 Rural Minnesotans face flooding and pollution from unregulated ag drainage. After their petition to MPCA was rejected, CURE and other environmental groups are asking a judge to make MPCA enforce state law and protect Minnesotans! #CleanWater #HealthyWater #AgDrainage #MPCA #RuralCommunities

Data centers are expanding fast. What tools do communities have to protect local interests Join CURE for a webinar on Community Benefit Agreements with Sarah K. Friedman of the Better Data Center Project. Register: https://bit.ly/DataCentersCBA #RuralCommunities #DataCenters #EnvironmentalJustice

🔎 Eye Spy two eagles! Spring is eagle mating season and they are active—flying & sitting with each other. Keep an eye out for eagle's unique mating ritual of grabbing talons in the sky & free falling before releasing! 🦅💫 #EagleWatch #SpringInMinnesota #NatureLovers #Birding #EagleMatingSeason

🌱 Tomorrow, the House hears Bill 3704 to reduce pesticide pollution. 🦋 Yesterday, CURE & partners rallied at the Capitol for Pesticide Action Day to protect our air, land, water & ecosystems. 🌾💧🍃

⚡🚌 Quieter buses. Cleaner air. Healthier kids. 💚 Several rural & MN school districts are adding electric school buses to their fleets & investing in a better future for students & communities, thanks to MPCA & EPA grants & rebates. #RuralMN #CleanTransportation #HealthyKids #ElectricSchoolBuses

💚🎬 CURE proudly sponsors Ely Film Festival, where stories inspire us to protect our lands, waters, communities, and democracy. Join us in Ely to see films that show how sharing stories makes a difference. 🌲✨ #CUREmn #ElyFilmFestival #ElyMN #ArtAndAdvocacy #RuralMN #ProtectWhatWeLove

🔥❄️ MN helps residents stay warm and save on heat bills with all-electric winter rates for heat pumps, rewarding efficiency and aiding rural households. 💸🏡 #Affordability #CleanHeat #RuralMN #HeatPump

Think Spring! What spring sign are you most excited to see? 🌷🌼🌸🌼🌷

🚨 Tell the MPCA: Industrial‑Scale Projects Need Industrial‑Scale Review! Riverview Dairy is planning a 19,000-cow mega‑facility in Stevens Cty. 🏢🐄💩 Support Land Stewardship Project's call for a full Environmental Impact Statement. Comment by March 12, 4:30p #MPCA #EIS #IndustrialAg #RiverviewDairy

Calling all 🏫 Township Supervisors, 👨🏿‍💻 Community Leaders, 🧑🏽‍🏭 Maintenance Staff, 💧 Water Pros, 🧑‍🔧 Public Works & 🏙️ City Council! Join Smart Salting Training to learn eco-friendly salt use. 💥 Certifications awarded 💥 Learn more: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/business-with-us/smart-salting-training

⚡ Did you do any energy efficiency upgrades to your home last year? Heat pumps, solar panels, panel upgrades? Buy an EV? Electrifying America put together tools on how to prepare for those home electrification tax credit returns. You did the hard work, make sure you get credit at tax time! 💸🏡

🚗⚡ MN needs more rural EV chargers, not less. This proposal from the USDOT would halt federal funding and widen the rural charging gap — just when communities are starting to catch up. Speak up & tell USDOT to stop blocking EV charger funding. #RuralMN #CleanTransportation #EVs #AffordOurLives

💥 “This is the first explosion of hyperscale data center development even though here's only one actually being built, in Rosemount right now.” —Sarah Mooradian, CURE. The choices we make now will shape energy use, water, and local control for decades. #MNLeg #DataCenters #CleanEnergy #RuralVoices

💚🎬 CURE proudly sponsors the Ely Film Festival—celebrating community, culture & storytelling that protects lands, democracy & neighbors. See you in Ely! 🌲✨ #ElyFilmFestival #ElyMN #CommunityCare #ArtAndAdvocacy #RuralMN #ProtectWhatWeLove

✔️❓True or False: Does a bear hibernate? FALSE! Bears experience topor: Temporary. May wake to eat. Body temp drops. Ex: bear. red squirrel. chipmunk. Hibernation: Prolonged (months). Survives off internal body fat reserves. Body temp drops to or close to -0°. Ex: turtle. frog. groundhog.

📝 Just dropped: Field Notes — CURE’s Monthly Dispatch! This month featuring: ️ 🏛 MN Legislative Session is in Full Swing 🔥 Data Center Info + Action 🚫 ICE Detention plans for Appleton defy Minnesota Values 👋 Erik departs after a decade Stay informed, stay engaged 👉 Read the Feb edition.

Sen. McEwen delivered a clear message to the MN PUC: Minnesotans are deeply concerned about the approval of MN Power’s sale to private equity. Despite public opposition & new facts coming to light about MN Power’s ties to a controversial data center project, the PUC refused to reconsider. #MNPUC

The ICE occupation of MN is changing, but it’s not over yet & how Minnesotans push back is changing too. Join us 8pm CT Sunday for updates & action. https://bit.ly/mnbriefing #ICEoutMN

🚆 Headed to Chicago! A few members of CURE’s staff en route this week to connect with Midwest leaders on building a clean, affordable, reliable & safe energy future. In 2026, we can fight and win to make this vision a reality for more Americans! 💡🌱