Sen. Tom Bakk, I-Cook, led the Minnesota Senate's bonding committee into Duluth on Thursday, intent to hear more about the $5 billion worth of projects in need of state money.
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On Tuesday, Gov. Tim Walz held a ceremonial bill signing to celebrate the landmark Energy Conservation and Optimization Act of 2021. The ECO Act will help Minnesota s energy conservation programs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create local jobs across the state through electrical, heating and cooling, ventilation, and insulation installation projects in Minnesota homes and businesses.
According to the governor s office, the ECO Act updates and expands Minnesota s Conservation Improvement Program (CIP). CIP helps Minnesota households and businesses use electricity and natural gas more efficiently, conserving energy, reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and lessening the need for new utility infrastructure.
Clean energy law spurs broad backing as it takes effect in Minnesota
The proposal to expand the state s Conservation Improvement Program generated bipartisan support needed to move it through the divided Statehouse. 4:05 pm, Jul. 27, 2021 ×
Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, spoke to reporters at the Capitol before ceremonially signing a bill that will expand Minnesota s Conservation Improvement Program. (Dana Ferguson / Forum News Service)
ST. PAUL Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz along with state lawmakers, energy industry leaders and utility workers on Tuesday, July 27, celebrated the passage of a proposal aimed at growing the state s Conservation Improvement Program.
The group held up the proposal as a win-win-win that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state, reduce energy prices for consumers and create new jobs around the state. And they noted that it was a somewhat rare bipartisan agreement that was able to make it through the split Sta
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