Clean Wisconsin, Wisconsin Farmers Union move to intervene in dangerous lawsuit targeting water protections
September 8, 2023
This week, Clean Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Farmers Union filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit that threatens a critical state water protection program. The lawsuit seeks to undermine Wisconsin’s water pollution permitting program, which allows the DNR to oversee the way CAFOs manage animal waste.…
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Suppressing Solar? Alliant Energy, MG&E target home solar in rate plans
September 6, 2023
Net metering. It doesn’t sound that exciting, but it’s actually one of the biggest incentives for families and small businesses to go solar. When your rooftop panels produce more energy than you can use, that energy goes into the grid, and your utility credits you for it. Now, MG&E and Alliant Energy are taking aim at that net metering incentive. Both are seeking approval from the Public Service Commission to drastically change the way they treat customers who install solar panels.…
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Cows in the Woods: What it Takes to Create a Silvopasture
September 1, 2023
Silvopasture is the practice of integrating trees & forage plants into livestock pastures. Keeping the farmland covered with perennial plants and trees holds…
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Tainted Water: Dairy lobby sues Wisconsin over water protections
August 24, 2023
Beach closures, fish kills, green lakes. They are unfortunate signs of summer in Wisconsin. A big reason: untreated animal waste. Large dairies can…
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Support A Clean Way to Move Energy
August 24, 2023
As seen in the Wisconsin State Journal We may hardly notice the delivery of fossil fuels until disaster strikes. A gasoline tanker…
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Wisconsin celebrates one-year anniversary of Inflation Reduction Act
August 16, 2023
Today marks one year since President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, and it’s already creating change in Wisconsin.…
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Health Benefits From EPA’s Proposed Regulations on Wisconsin Power Plants
August 5, 2023
Analysis finding that EPA’s proposed power plant rules will bring nearly $50 million in healthcare-related benefits for Wisconsin.…
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Evers’ Veto Supports Cleaner, Healthier Wisconsin Communities
August 4, 2023
Wisconsin communities will retain the ability to adopt policies phasing out the use of dangerous fossil fuels, thanks to Gov. Evers’ veto of Senate Bill 49.…
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Farming the Sun: WI Farmers Find a Lifeline in Solar
July 30, 2023
It’s no secret, Wisconsin has been rapidly losing its small family farms, and with them, a way of life that’s defined much of our state for more than a century. But there is a lifeline coming.…
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Dangerous lawsuit puts water protections at risk
July 24, 2023
Lawsuit filed by state's largest dairies would dismantle Wisconsin program to keep untreated animal waste our of our water.…
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