(Editor’s Note: The following (partial) article was submitted as a press release by the Sierra Club).

Last week, community members from across Central Minnesota held a press conference demanding that Xcel Energy commit to 100% clean, renewable energy, to express opposition to building a new fossil gas plant and gas pipeline in Becker, and to remind the utility that Minnesotans are not fossil fools.

See next week’s Patriot for full story on the conference.