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The Pine Bend oil refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota, run by Flint Hills Resources, a subsidiary of Koch Industries. Contributed / Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, under Creative Commons license “Who told you the earth was warming — Chicken Little?” This is the tagline from an infamous oil industry ad from 1991, one of many in a multi-decade barrage of disinformation tactics.
The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce has membership from companies that employ more than 500,000 Minnesotans and feature some of our state’s most admired and respected names, including Target, General Mills, Best Buy and Cargill. When it comes to climate action, however, the values of the Chamber — and the workforce and companies it represents — are worlds apart. This month the U.N.-sponsored, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a dire report on the state of our planet.
Minnesota is the anchor state in what political pundits often refer to as the “blue wall,” a collection of 18 states that Democrats have mostly dominated in presidential elections since 1992. In the past 11 presidential elections, Minnesota has chosen the Democratic nominee, the longest active streak in the country. Minnesota is considered liberal and pro-environment, yet there is a chasm between its ideals and its politics, which fossil fuel interests are eager to disguise.
A gas flare from a petroleum refinery. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images. Minnesota is the anchor state in what political pundits often refer to as the “blue wall,” a collection of 18 states that Democrats have dominated in presidential elections since 1992. In the past 11 presidential elections, Minnesota has chosen the Democratic nominee, the longest active streak in the country.
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