S.H.E. Kindness Policy Program

The S.H.E. Kindness Policy Program collaborates with the Minnesota Environmental Partnership, Clean Water Action Minnesota and other key state and national partners to:

  • Support and successfully pass and implement impactful public policies
  • Develop and implement strategic campaigns to shift the policies of public and private entities
  • Participate in state and national advocacy days and
  • Promote weekly Take Actions on a wide variety of policy issues related to sustainability, health, equity and kindness

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Block the Trump Administration and Congress from Weakening Environmental Protection 

Staff work at the Superior terminal of Enbridge Energy in Superior, WI, on June 29, 2018. Environmentalist and tribal concerns over the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline’s problematic environmental review sadly came to be reality when Enbridge and the DNR confirmed a new and fourth aquifer rupture, this one near Moose Lake south of Hill City, MN. Credit: Jim Mone | AP 2018

By Katherine Tamburrano, Alliance Intern from University of Texas at Austin ‘27

Important environmental protections put in place to keep the federal government accountable for its impact on the environment are being thrown out like they don’t matter. A proposed law called the SPEED Act is awaiting Congressional action to accomplish just that. It “prioritizes the interests of fossil fuel, mining, and other corporate polluters at the expense of our families and communities,” according to the Sierra Club.

The SPEED Act will specifically target the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which is a landmark law passed in 1970. NEPA plays a critical role by requiring federal agencies assess the environmental impact of proposed land use.

Take a step to protect your health, the climate, and our future, and join the Alliance in signing this letter by the Sierra Club to tell your representatives to oppose the SPEED Act that dismantles our country’s bedrock environmental protections.

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Stop this Farm Bill Pesticide Provision that Threatens Your Health and Wellbeing

Farm workers spraying pesticides on a field adjacent to a neighborhood, the road being the only barrier between them and toxic chemicals Creator: David McNew | Credit: Getty Images

By Katherine Tamburrano, Alliance Intern from University of Texas at Austin ‘27

You, your neighbors and farmworkers will be at-risk of dangerous pesticide exposure if agrichemical companies are successful in pressuring Congress to repeal state and local pesticide restrictions. This would threaten state and local laws that go further than the EPA’s regulations for pesticide use – local laws designed to protect vulnerable populations such as farm workers and schoolchildren, as well as endangered pollinators like bees, according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

Please join the Alliance in sending your Congressional representatives this letter by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) to demand state and local pesticide regulations remain in place. The power to police these pesticide corporations would be further out of our hands if they are successful in implementing their provision in the 2025 Farm Bill.

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Protect Indigenous Rights and Stop Trump’s Destruction of the Boundary Waters, a National Crown Jewel

A handmade wood canvas canoe glides into a secret bay lined with golden tamaracks in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Photograph by Jim Brandenburg, National Geographic

By Katherine Tamburrano, Alliance Intern from University of Texas at Austin ‘27

The Boundary Waters is an engine that powers Northeastern Minnesota’s outdoor recreation economy, which sustains 17,000 jobs and over $1 billion in sales every year, according to Earthjustice.

But it’s also home to precious metals like nickel and copper that Minnesota and the Federal Government have protected from highly toxic mining that would likely contaminate the pristine waters. The Trump Administration is proposing to lift the ban on mining.

Please join the Alliance in sending this Earthjustice letter asking the Department of the Interior to oppose the proposed Twin Metals copper mine. We need to protect the rights of Indigenous people and assure a thriving local eco-tourism economy.

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