Category: As Seen in the Defender

  Clean Wisconsin is intervening in a dangerous lawsuit filed by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) that seeks to undermine critical water protections.

Unlocking the Potential of a Remarkable Fruit  Nestled among the picturesque rolling hills of southwestern Wisconsin, just outside Blanchardville, lies Barham Gardens. Kim and Roberta Barham live on this small homestead farm where they tend around 1,000 aronia berry plants.

As seen in the Wisconsin State Journal   We may hardly notice the delivery of fossil fuels until disaster strikes. A gasoline tanker overturned in Pennsylvania in November. A pipeline spilled 600,000 gallons of oil in Kansas in December.

The Biden EPA recently rolled out its strongest-ever proposal to slash planet-warming emissions from power plants.

Since joining Clean Wisconsin in mid-May, Sara Walling has already made an incredible impact, testifying on key PFAS legislation before the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, and providing insight to the media in the wake of the U.S.

Unconventional partnership proves agriculture and environmental organizations can be allies for clean water  Clean Wisconsin, in collaboration with the Dairy Business Association, The Nature Conservancy, and Wisconsin Land and Water, has achieved significant progress towards improving rural water quality.

  It’s summer,  and in Wisconsin, that means peak season for dangerous ammonia air pollution. A new analysis of satellite imagery by Clean Wisconsin shows monthly concentrations of ammonia air pollution in our state are worst in May but last all summer long.

The goal is in sight. We know Wisconsin can reach a clean energy future within a generation, one where we breathe cleaner air, power our communities with homegrown, renewable energy, and use our resources wisely.

  Carbon Capture and Storage, what is it and how does it work?  Many analyses investigating how to reach climate goals include carbon capture and storage (CCS) if we are to reduce emissions quickly enough to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

How much will you get from the Inflation Reduction Act? Find with Rewiring America’s IRA Calculator Historic federal funding measures could make a major impact on top environmental concerns for Wisconsin.