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Senate approves energy omnibus after lawmakers faulted the package for stripped bipartisan policy
Summary
Senate File 2, an energy, utilities and climate omnibus, passed after contentious debate over process and removal of bipartisan policy that sponsors said would have reduced ratepayer costs. Final passage was 35–32.
The Minnesota Senate on special session passed Senate File 2, an energy omnibus bill funding commerce and the Public Utilities Commission and setting policy provisions for energy and renewable programs.
Senator Frentz, the bill’s chief author, described the package as a product of months of work and said it funds operating adjustments for the Department of Commerce and the Public Utilities Commission while recovering costs from ratepayers.…
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