Funding would create Wisconsin jobs as unemployment rises WASHINGTON, D.C. — A budget proposal released Thursday by President Obama provides $475 million in funding for a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative that could create thousands of Wisconsin jobs just as new figures show the state’s unemployment rate jumped 1.8 percent in January alone. “The Great Lakes
MADISON — Governor Doyle introduced his 2009-2010 budget last night, laying out his plan to carefully address a $5.7 billion budget shortfall. In his budget proposal, the Governor included necessary resources to implement the Great Lakes Compact. “We understand that hard choices need to be made in tough fiscal times,” said Amber Meyer Smith, Program
MADISON — Clean Wisconsin today praised the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama for passing an economic recovery package that puts people to work by restoring the Great Lakes. The bill contains $107,864,636 to help Wisconsin modernize wastewater infrastructure to prevent sewage contamination. “This bill is good for Wisconsin. It puts people to work and
Signals intention to continue environmental progress despite budget cuts MADISON — From protecting Wisconsin waters to running our cars on cheese, Governor Doyle highlighted recent environmental victories and signaled his intentions to move forward with environmental progress despite budget cuts in his annual State of the State Address yesterday evening. In his address, Governor Doyle
Historic decision will save ratepayers money and reduce pollution MADISON — Wisconsin regulators rejected a proposal to build a conventional coal plant for the first time in state history today when the Public Service Commission voted unanimously to reject Alliant Energy’s highly controversial $1.26 billion coal plant on the shores of the Mississippi River in Cassville,
MADISON — Wisconsinites overwhelmingly oppose Alliant Energy’s proposal to build a coal-fired power plant on the shores of the Mississippi River in Cassville, Wisconsin according to documents filed before the Public Service Commission yesterday afternoon. “Members of the public providing written comments oppose this project on a margin of ten to one,” read a Clean Wisconsin
MADISON — Utilities will be required to reduce mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants by 90 percent by 2015 or by the same amount by 2021 if they agree to more stringent standards for other pollutants, after the State Legislature’s Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules failed to object to the measure today.
Utility admits to “uncertainties with the biomass market” MADISON — After publicly stating its Marshalltown, Iowa coal plant could burn 10 percent biomass, staff for Alliant Energy now question the feasibility of burning the renewable fuel in the recently approved plant according to testimony submitted in front of the Iowa Utilities Board earlier this month.
Focus now shifts to restoring the Midwest’s most valuable natural resource WASHINGTON, D.C. — Less than five months after Wisconsin passed the Great Lakes Compact, the U.S. Congress today officially ratified the measure, a historic agreement between eight states and two Canadian provinces to not divert water outside of the Great Lakes region. “Wisconsin and
Making existing power plant more efficient would save ratepayers nearly $1 billion MADISON — Alliant Energy could save its customers nearly a billion dollars and significantly reduce global warming pollution by converting a company-owned natural gas power plant in Neenah to a more efficient design instead of constructing another coal-fired power plant in Cassville, according to
