{"id":439033,"date":"2026-04-12T08:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=439033"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:48:21","slug":"for-minnesota-climate-obsession-is-just-another-fiscal-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=439033","title":{"rendered":"For Minnesota, Climate Obsession Is Just Another Fiscal Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"439035\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=439035\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-For-Minnesota-Climate-Obsession-Is-Just-Another-Fiscal-Disaster.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"784,1168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0 For Minnesota, Climate Obsession Is Just Another Fiscal Disaster\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-For-Minnesota-Climate-Obsession-Is-Just-Another-Fiscal-Disaster.jpg?fit=687%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-For-Minnesota-Climate-Obsession-Is-Just-Another-Fiscal-Disaster.jpg?resize=687%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-439035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-For-Minnesota-Climate-Obsession-Is-Just-Another-Fiscal-Disaster.jpg?resize=687%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 687w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-For-Minnesota-Climate-Obsession-Is-Just-Another-Fiscal-Disaster.jpg?resize=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-For-Minnesota-Climate-Obsession-Is-Just-Another-Fiscal-Disaster.jpg?resize=768%2C1144&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-For-Minnesota-Climate-Obsession-Is-Just-Another-Fiscal-Disaster.jpg?resize=640%2C953&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-For-Minnesota-Climate-Obsession-Is-Just-Another-Fiscal-Disaster.jpg?w=784&amp;ssl=1 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minnesota law sets ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets relative to 2005 levels: 30% by 2025, 50% by 2030, and carbon neutrality by 2050. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2023 climate package and updated 2026 Climate Action Framework outline hundreds of actions across sectors like electricity, transportation, agriculture, and buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emissions fell ~20% from 2005\u20132023 (with coal-to-other sources in power generation as a key driver), but the state likely missed the 2025 target and is off pace for 2030. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 framework acknowledges that current policies alone would yield only ~28% reduction by 2030 and 39% by 2050\u2014short of goals\u2014and calls for accelerated action, especially amid shifting federal policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A March 2026 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) report on adaptation estimates that unaddressed climate impacts could cost $17\u201322 billion annually mid-century (high emissions scenario), rising to $36\u201357 billion by 2070\u20132099. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It claims adaptation investments of $2.5\u20134.1 billion\/year could avoid much of that (8\u201315x return in avoided costs for analyzed categories like heat, health, infrastructure). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the study notes it underestimates total impacts\/adaptation needs and focuses on a high-emissions pathway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">_____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2026\/04\/08\/for-minnesota-climate-obsession-is-just-another-fiscal-disaster\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/authors\/daniel_turner\/\">Daniel Turner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not hyperbole to say that Minnesota is a fiscal disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that is not just my opinion. Nearly 100 mayors in the state\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/minnesota-mayors-warn-state-fiscal-policies-hurting-cities-residents-local-budgets\">signed<\/a>\u00a0a letter to their Governor Tim Walz questioning his policies under which an $18 billion budget surplus became a $3 billion deficit during a three-day period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the private sector, a decline this precipitous would get any CEO fired or indicted. Textbooks should be written about such economic ineptitude, but instead of accountability or serious cost cutting to restore sound budgetary footing, Walz\u2019 fellow Democrats chose a cowardly path: corporate extortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, they do not call it such an ugly name. \u201cClimate change superfund\u201d sounds much more palatable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s how it works. Bill SF-4866\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bills\/94\/2026\/0\/SF\/4886\/versions\/0\/\">enables<\/a>\u00a0the Minnestoa legislature to steal from individual energy companies they do not like turning them into scapegoats for bad weather. The left despises the fossil fuel industry anyway. \u201cBig Oil\u201d is a favorite pejorative, and this piece of legislation accomplishes many things at once: it targets big oil by making them the forever boogeyman, it steals their profits and most of all, it helps close that pesky budget shortfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that liberals\u2019 policies have put the state in financial peril be damned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This bill represents everything that the modern American left has become: sanctimonious and fiscally reckless, and if anyone questions the policy, fall back on the air cover of \u201cthe planet\u201d and \u201cfighting climate change\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The superfund law stems from a Columbia University proposal targeting fossil fuel companies under the guise of fighting climate change. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2024\/03\/14\/state-climate-superfund-bills-what-you-need-to-know\/\">outline<\/a>\u00a0almost gushes:\u00a0<em>hundreds of billions of dollars for state-level climate adaptation<\/em>. With such a revenue stream, there is little need for fiscal responsibility. Tedious details like legislative hearings and budget appropriations are circumvented if \u201cbig oil\u201d is forced to write endless checks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/welfare\/commentary\/somali-welfare-fraud-minnesota-has-cost-american-taxpayers-billions#:~:text=The%20investigation%20expanded%20to%20Medicaid,his%20first%20day%20of%20investigating.\">potential $9 billion<\/a>\u00a0dollars\u2019 worth of Somali daycare fraud?\u00a0 Big deal\u2026 we\u2019re getting hundreds of billions in new revenue. Let the fraud investigate itself. Big oil is making it rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBig oil\u201d won\u2019t pay. The consumer will. Look at the current elevated prices of oil due to the Iran engagement. Is \u201cbig oil\u201d swallowing the losses caused by international supply chain disruption?\u00a0 No. Drivers are paying more as prices tick upward. Corporations do not pay taxes and fines, superfund penalties, or nonsense lawsuit payouts. They just charge more for their product like every other company on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other fiscally troubled states have introduced superfund legislation, too. New York\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osc.ny.gov\/reports?field_region_target_id_1%5B263921%5D=263921&amp;field_report_topics_target_id%5B263846%5D=263846&amp;combine=%22state%20fiscal%20year%22\">($34 billion<\/a>\u00a0budget deficit for FY 2026 with $233 billion in debt) and Vermont\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ljfo.vermont.gov\/assets\/Publications\/2025-Fiscal-Facts-Booklet\/2025-Fiscal-Facts-Booklet-Debt.pdf\">($33 million<\/a>\u00a0budget deficit for FY 2026 with $800 million in debt). It is inevitable that other blue states in the red like New Jersey, Illinois, and California do the same. The superfund is free money with the right amount of virtue signaling, even if the costs fall on the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Champions of superfund bills do what every politician does to hide bad ideas: invoke the children. At the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uOmQz2ri0XM&amp;t=239s\">press conference<\/a>\u00a0introducing the bill, a prop child was placed directly behind the podium. One can feel the pushback through the legislators\u2019 remarks: this is not about greed! This is not about robbing companies we dislike (or who do not contribute to our campaign)! This is not about revenue streams to balance our insane spending habits! No!\u00a0 This is about the children. Look! Here\u2019s one now.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Always use the children. Minnesotans know this already. How did Somali migrants steal billions of tax dollars through fraudulent shell companies? Children.\u00a0 Who votes against daycare centers? Who votes against superfunds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To avoid getting caught stealing, hide behind the children. The villain in the movie Titanic stole a seat on the life raft like a true liberal: he hid behind a child. Minnesota legislators are following his lead, and as they and Gov. Walz steer into a fiscal iceberg, they found a child to introduce the superfund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state may be sinking, and while the powers that be can always jump ship, the people of Minnesota are locked below deck. It will not end well.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Daniel Turner is the founder and executive director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerthefuture.com\/\">Power The Future,<\/a>\u00a0a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs. He also runs a sheep and cattle farm in rural Virginia. Contact him at daniel@powerthefuture.com and follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanielTurnerPTF\">@DanielTurnerPTF<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota law sets ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets relative to 2005 levels: 30% by 2025, 50% by 2030, and carbon neutrality by 2050. 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