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DTE Energy and state regulators have asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider a decision affecting a permit for the utility s new gas plant.
The company is building a billion gas plant in St. Clair County.
Nick Leonard is the executive director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. He says the Court of Appeals rightly decided that state regulators ignored their own permitting process.
Leonard says regulators did not require DTE to study pre-existing ozone levels before they issued a permit.
Ozone can hurt people with lung problems as well as young children and even healthy people who exercise outdoors.
The funds will pay for designing the trail segment within Maplewood State Park 5:30 pm, Jan. 29, 2021 ×
The Perham to Pelican Rapids Regional Trail will run alongside this narrow section of Highway 34, requiring acres of fill. (Focus file photo)
The Otter Tail County Commission has accepted a $375,000 state grant to design the part of the Perham to Pelican Rapids Regional Trail that goes through Maplewood State Park.
At the Tuesday, Jan. 26, meeting, the commission gave Nick Leonard, deputy administrator, the go-ahead to work with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on the project. That was a five-segment project, the fifth segment being within the park boundaries, Leonard said. The other segments of the trail, which will stretch 32 miles when completed, have already been funded.
Otter Tail County and Perham s plans on the use of CARES Act funds. Written By: RosaLin Alcoser | ×
Otter Tail County Deputy Administrator Nick Leonard. (Submitted photo)
Otter Tail County and Perham have both budgeted how they will be using their federal funding to help offset the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
In June, Gov. Tim Walz announced the plan to distribute $841 million to Minnesota counties, cities and towns to support local governments in COVID-19 relief efforts. The funding was authorized under the federal Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act.
Otter Tail County, among other counties, has until Dec. 10 to use their allocated CARES Act funds. After Dec. 10 the unspent funds will be returned to the state.