Kristoffer Tigue

4 weeks ago | arcamax.com | Kristoffer Tigue

MINNEAPOLIS — An obscure Minnesota lending institution has found itself caught up in one of the nastiest fights over the Trump administration’s funding freeze for climate projects.

1 month ago | startribune.com | Kristoffer Tigue

An analysis of weather data reveals that the season of itches and sniffles is longer than it was 50 years ago. The Minnesota Star TribuneRoughly one in four U.S. adults and nearly one in five children suffer from seasonal allergies, which in the spring are largely caused by tree pollen. (Tony Gutierrez/The Associated Press)Allergy season will soon be in full swing.

1 month ago | startribune.com | Kristoffer Tigue

Is winter weather whiplash becoming Minnesota’s new normal? Longtime Minnesotans puzzle over the predictability of the state’s coldest months. Pedestrians walk through puddles of water in the Saint Anthony Main neighborhood as the recent snow melted with temperatures reaching 60 degrees on Sunday March 9, 2025. (Jerry Holt/The Minnesota Star Tribune)Angela Gray remembers colder, more predictable winters when she was a child.

1 month ago | startribune.com | Kristoffer Tigue

EPA restores Minnesota’s access to $200 million carbon cutting planBut other would-be recipients of federal environmental grants remain in limbo, and some wait to be paid for work already done. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Commissioner Katrina Kessler, seen last May, said the EPA recently released funds for a $200 million program to cut carbon emissions.

2 months ago | insideclimatenews.org | Kristoffer Tigue

The Department of Justice’s Office of Environmental Justice is puny by federal agency standards. But advocates have said for years that it punches well above its weight. In 2022, OEJ lawyers filed a lawsuit against the city of Jackson, Mississippi, after a water treatment plant failed. Some 160,000 residents, along with hospitals, fire stations and schools, had been left without safe drinking water, and OEJ helped get an independent manager appointed to oversee improvements.