The St. Paul Pioneer Press published a profile of Minnesota for Environmental Advocacy’s Beth Goodpaster, calling her an “unsung hero” in the successful fight to prevent construction of the Big Stone II power plant.

“Despite the electricity the plant would provide, clean-energy advocates said, using coal for its fuel would set the clean-energy movement back,” Pioneer Press reporter Devin Henry wrote. “Goodpaster, a humble-yet-tenacious lawyer, took on the case, and her on-the-job learning and dogged motivation to defeat the plant would make her one of the most important figures in the battle against the project.

“The victory over Big Stone II was especially sweet for clean-energy advocates because many legal and regulatory decisions in the case were in favor of the developers. Representing a variety of environmental and energy advocacy organizations, Goodpaster, a staff attorney for the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, led the charge for more than four years in a tedius back-and-forth legal war.”

The full story quotes others in the environmental and clean energy community praising Beth’s work and takes the time to tell more of her personal story.