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Catharine Richert is based in Rochester, Minn., and covers Southeast Minnesota for MPR News. She was previously on MPR's politics team, and has contributed to MPR's health care coverage. She lives in Rochester with her husband, a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic, and their three children.

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Calais Lone Elk, a member of the Mdewakanton Sioux, stands on tribal land near the Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant in southeast Minnesota on July 20.
Posted inCLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

Prairie Island Indian Community nuclear concern powers net zero carbon emissions plan.

Avatar photo by Catharine Richert August 5, 2022August 4, 2022

To disentangle itself from a power plant it never wanted, Prairie Island Community created a $46 million plan to produce net zero carbon emissions within the next decade. 

Ashley Kidd-Tatge (left) and Debby Prudhomme (right) stand for a portrait outside the Park Point Marina Inn on May 12 in Duluth.
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To tackle maternal health disparities, one Minnesota insurer looks to doula care.

Avatar photo by Catharine Richert July 12, 2022July 19, 2022
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Rochester confronts its segregated housing history, Mayo founders’ role

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‘They’ve got to be able to speak Dakota at the Mall of America’: Prairie Island sends its first student team to the Dakota language bowl.

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Stacey Danner wavered on getting the vaccine, then died of COVID in July. Friends hope his story can sway others to get shots.

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After a grueling year in the ICU and at George Floyd Square, an unexpected friendship.

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Minnesota data shows disparities in race and ethnicity of who’s getting COVID-19 vaccine.

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Rochester program aims to help new arrivals navigate public safety

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Soccer: Salve for struggling neighborhood of immigrants

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