Minnesota voters approve maintaining use of lottery funds to protect the environment
If you have walked on a trail or swam in a lake in Minnesota you've benefited from the environmental natural resources trust fund. The fund was designed decades ago using funds from the state lottery.
Should Minnesota continue to put lottery dollars toward the environment?
Currently 40 percent of proceeds from the state lottery go into a fund aimed at protecting the state’s environment. Voters will decide next week whether to renew the fund for another 25 years, but a proposed addition is getting some pushback.
Minnesota voters reauthorize lottery conservation funding
Minnesota voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to extend the state's Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, a conservation funding source that dedicates 40% of state lottery proceeds to the outdoors,
Minnesota voters overwhelmingly say ‘yes’ to continue lottery funds for environmental efforts
The constitutional amendment to extend Minnesota's Environmental and Natural Resources Trust fund via the state lottery got 77% of the vote.
Voters overwhelmingly back Minnesota lottery spending on environmental projects for another 25 years
More than 77 percent of voters backed a constitutional amendment that continues to funnel tens of millions of dollars of Minnesota’s lottery proceeds into environmental research and natural resource protection efforts for another 25 years.
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