The Minneapolis City Council overturned Mayor Jacob Frey’s veto of the City’s 2025 license fee schedule, which will charge the city's biggest polluters fees based on their carbon dioxide emissions.

The Minneapolis City Council overruled a veto by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry to impose a carbon emissions fees in order to reduce the impacts of climate change.

The Minneapolis City Council voted Thursday to move ahead with establishing a fee for the city’s biggest carbon dioxide emitters, overriding Mayor Jacob Frey’s veto. But councilmembers agreed to move the fee date back several months to give the city time to address concerns with the policy.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey argued to a wary City Council Tuesday that a majority of residents support his plans to repurpose the former 3rd Precinct building as a "democracy center." Why it matters: The charred police station has sat vacant since it burned in 2020,

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday vetoed a City Council plan to charge the city's largest polluters with a fee based on their carbon dioxide emissions. Council Member Robin Wonsley, who led support for the plan,

Minneapolis City Council members declared victory on what they see as urgent action to address the climate crisis by overriding a mayoral veto on carbon emission fees.

Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley speaks during a press conference discussing a fee on carbon emissions that was recently passed by Minneapolis City Council outside of Owens Corning in Minneapolis on Oct.