MADISON – Clean Wisconsin, along with a national coalition of environmental groups, filed a lawsuit today urging the EPA to address air pollution from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), including ammonia.
MADISON — As mounting evidence shows plastic microbeads getting into our Great Lakes, state lawmakers are poised to kick off the new legislative session with bills to curb the amount of plastic pollution affecting our waters.
Clean Wisconsin has a number of science and policy internships available throughout the year for undergraduate and graduate students in engineering, environmental sciences, political/governmental, public health, or other related fields. Applicants should be able to demonstrate strong analytic and technical abilities, excellent writing skills, and an interest in and commitment to addressing environmental issues facing
MADISON — After years of waiting, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the first national regulations for the disposal of coal ash from power plants this afternoon. Despite the long wait, today’s regulations do not adequately protect our water and our health.
MADISON — Clean Wisconsin is among a diverse group of Midwestern organizations and electricity sector stakeholders meeting today with top officials at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency to give input on EPA’s Clean Power Plan. The plan, currently in draft form, would help to reduce carbon pollution from Wisconsin power plants by 34 percent below 2012 levels over the next 15 years.
MADISON — Clean Wisconsin and Midwest Environmental Defense Center filed a lawsuit today to compel the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to comply with federal requirements regarding air quality standards.
Nobody feels the effects of drought, above-normal heat and flooding quite like Wisconsin’s farmers. According to a new survey of nearly five dozen farmers statewide, such extreme weather events are hurting crop yields, livestock and the bottom line.
MADISON — An Adams County heifer operation must install additional monitoring equipment and continue efforts to clean up the groundwater under a state wastewater permit granted Tuesday. The permit comes amid a large public outcry over nitrate contamination at Burr Oak Heifers, in Richfield, Adams County.
MADISON — Members of the health, faith, environmental and youth communities came together Wednesday to show their support for EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan. Clean Wisconsin released a report, Cutting Carbon Works for Wisconsin, which the group shared with the EPA and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources amid the show of community support for the EPA plan.
MADISON — A study released by Clean Wisconsin finds that more than one in five wells across Waukesha, Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties are contaminated with molybdenum at levels above the state health advisory level. Families and schools in the area are being forced to buy bottled water or install expensive purification systems to avoid the toxic metal, which is found in coal ash.
