MADISON — Parents have the opportunity to teach their children every day. The traditional three Rs — reading, writing and ‘rithmetic — are critically important, but so are the other three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle. While Earth Day is the perfect time to teach your children about the importance of protecting our environment and its resources,
By: Keith Reopelle MADISON — It is an understatement to say that Wisconsin has a strong environmental legacy. With leaders like John Muir, Aldo Leopold and Gaylord Nelson all having called Wisconsin home, our state can take great pride in its historical wealth of environmental leaders. Unfortunately, that strong environmental legacy is threatened today, and there
Second Wisconsin wind project to fall victim to regulatory uncertainty in 10 days MADISON — Today, clean energy businesses and advocates celebrated the reinstatement of the statewide, uniform wind siting rule, PSC 128. This important rule, which was suspended by a legislative committee last March, creates commonsense standards for permitting safe wind farms. “The suspension of
Wind company cites regulatory uncertainty as reason for cancellation BROWN COUNTY, Wis. — Citing the recent suspension of the wind siting rules (PSC 128) and the “uncertainty generated by the current legislative and regulatory climate,” Invenergy LLC announced yesterday that it would no longer pursue the development of a proposed wind farm in Brown County. “Governor
MADISON: Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal released last week includes a provision that would end state funding for recycling programs and eliminate a state law guaranteeing residents access to local recycling programs. Repealing the recycling law would move Wisconsin 2 decades backward, and legislators should act quickly to remove this embarrassing provision from the budget. First
Suspension could kill clean energy projects, cost hundreds of jobs MADISON — A legislative committee is set to vote Tuesday on a measure that would suspend PSC 128, a rule package that creates uniform statewide standards for the development of safe wind farms in Wisconsin. “Suspending the wind siting rule will kill jobs and move
Asks agency to set limits, monitor this carcinogen MADISON — Today, Clean Wisconsin asked the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to classify crystalline silica a “hazardous air pollutant” and to monitor how much of this carcinogenic toxin is being released into Wisconsin’s air. “There are at least 375 sources of this dangerous toxin in Wisconsin,
New report may uncover source of carcinogen in water MADISON – A new report may shed light on the source of cancer-causing chromium VI recently found in tap water tested in Milwaukee and Madison. A report released last week by Physicians for Social Responsibility, Earthjustice and the Environmental Integrity Project, called EPA’s Blind Spot: Hexavalent Chromium
Proposed wind ban would put Wisconsin at a disadvantage in the clean energy economy MADISON — The economic border battle is escalating as Illinois issues a call to Wisconsin wind energy companies to “escape to Illinois,” following Governor Scott Walker’s new special session bill that effectively bans new wind farms and kills jobs. The call
MADISON — A special session bill recently proposed by Governor Scott Walker includes many provisions that could hurt Wisconsin’s economy and environment, but one of the most perplexing proposals in this package is a new regulation that would effectively ban wind energy projects in Wisconsin. The regulatory reform bill proposed by Gov. Walker would close
