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Minneapolis deserves clean air. We’re organizing to shut down the HERC — the biggest polluter in Hennepin County.

Take action: https://bit.ly/dontburntrash

10/30/2026

Have you submitted your eligibility form yet? If not, now is the time! Applications are closing soon. Eligibility forms are due November 4, 2026, at 5 PM CT.

To be eligible, you must:
• Live in the Twin Cities Metro: Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, or Washington County, Minnesota
• Be 18 or older
• Identify as Black
• Identify as LGBTQ+ or Allied
• Be experiencing emergency financial hardship

Eligible applicants will be entered into a random selection pool. Those selected will receive a link to complete a full application and will have 10 days to submit it. Funds will be distributed as completed applications are received.

Apply here: https://tinyurl.com/22upvu7c

10/27/2026

Hennepin County named and tracked Kent Mori of the Climate Justice Committee. Instead of community engagement, the county was doing opposition research.

This was done in defense of Hennepin County’s worst industrial polluter, whose legacy permits are eclipsed by modern standards. Permitted does not mean safe.

Kent spoke out and echoed movements for justice: When the campaign to close the HERC is under attack, what do we do?

10/25/2026

Heritage Park deserves dignity and the .

Advocate Kenya McKnight-Ahad says the city and state stepped up. Hennepin County has not.

Families are living with mold and a trash burner that runs on a legacy permit decades behind modern standards.

It's time for the county to step up!

10/24/2026

Hennepin County surveilled community members organizing against HERC -- and shared that information with the company that runs it.

They call that a partnership. Partners listen to the people most impacted. They don’t defend a burner as safe when it operates on a legacy permit eclipsed by modern standards. And they don’t hand our organizing over to the private company that burns the trash that we breathe.

10/23/2026

Hennepin County staff tracked and logged the people organizing to close the trash burner. Residents and community leaders named in the county’s own records answered at Heritage Park, in view of the burner.

The county says the trash burner is within its permit. That legacy permit is decades behind modern standards, and the county won’t say so.

Set a closure date by Jan. 1, 2028. Stop watching us.

10/23/2026

“The county wasn’t just listening to our concerns, they were listening in.” - Audua Pugh. The county says the HERC trash burner is within permits. It won’t say modern standards are much higher. No wonder they treat us this way. Stop tracking us. Set a closure date by Jan. 1, 2028.

10/22/2026

Community Speaks Out as Hennepin County Records Reveal Surveillance of HERC Opponents, Intel Shared With Incinerator Operator

Records show county staff surveilled community members and briefed HERC’s private operator on rallies, meetings and legislation. The coalition is speaking out as it renews its demand for a closure date and a Zero Waste transition being blocked by the Minneapolis trash burner.

Read the report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W6GV4Vnw96w8XgmapMPRh1myU8cEmtOG/view?usp=drive_link

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2100 Plymouth Ave North
Minneapolis, MN
55411

Website

http://zeroburncoalition.org/, https://secure.everyaction.com/ECtt0QgCj0quvcWzXBErmA2, https://linktr.ee/zeroburn

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