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Category: Clean Air

Park with hazy buildings in the distance blanketed by wildfire smoke
Posted on July 13, 2025 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Clean Air, Climate and Energy

Dangerous Smoke Blanketing Wisconsin Should be a Wakeup Call for Policymakers

"There is action we can take right now to ensure that Wisconsin is part of the climate solution.
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Posted on July 8, 2025 By Brett Korte, Staff Attorney
In As Seen in the Defender, Clean Air, Climate and Energy

Gas-hungry data centers: The biggest threat to the clean energy transition?

With the recent change in federal administration, incentives for clean energy are at risk. And there is another trend threatening to derail decarbonization goals—the data center boom.
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Posted on July 8, 2025 By Jacob Ahrens-Balwit, Strategic Communications Manager
In As Seen in the Defender, Clean Air, Climate and Energy

Fossil Fuel Flashback?

Despite the mounting costs to our environment, health, and economy, fossil fuels appear to be staging a comeback in Wisconsin.
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Posted on July 1, 2025 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Clean Air, Clean Water, Climate and Energy, Government and Policy

The Ugly Impact of Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ on Wisconsin’s Environment

Senate Republicans have passed a bill that will mean more pollution, higher energy costs, more extraction on public lands, and lost jobs here in Wisconsin.
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We Energies coal plant on the coast of Lake Michigan
Posted on June 25, 2025 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Clean Air, Climate and Energy

We Energies pushes back coal plant retirement

"This is a company that time and time again has taken a shortsighted, profit-driven approach to energy production and planning, and its customers are paying for it.
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Panoramic view of power plant smokestack in dramatic light
Posted on June 17, 2025 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Clean Air, Climate and Energy

Trump order to keep Michigan coal plant running could mean higher energy bills in Wisconsin

Consumers Energy, the utility that owns the plant, wants to recoup costs to bring the plant back online through price increases on customers across the Midwest grid.
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Posted on March 27, 2025 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Blog, As Seen in the Defender, Clean Air, Clean Water, Climate and Energy, Government and Policy

Pushing back on chainsaw politics

Wisconsin communities are pushing back against the Trump Administration’s efforts to slash funding for clean energy, pollution cleanup, and infrastructure improvements, warning that these cuts will have harmful local consequences.
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Gas-fired power plant
Posted on March 14, 2025 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Clean Air, Climate and Energy

Microsoft shrugs off company climate goals to support burning methane gas for AI data centers

  Microsoft is walking back its long-touted commitment to clean energy as the company seeks to build more artificial intelligence data centers in the Midwest.
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Defender: Wisconsin's Environmental Podcast: with Amy Barrilleaux
Posted on February 17, 2025 By Clean Wisconsin
In Podcast, Clean Air

Leaded Skies: A Small Town’s Fight Against Leaded Aviation Fuel

It this episode, Amy talks with a small town Wisconsin lawmaker who is leading her community’s charge to get the lead our of our air. And she’s got an eye-opening study that shows how our drinking water could be at risk too.
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Posted on December 13, 2024 By Logan Rude, Digital & Social Media Content Specialist
In Blog, As Seen in the Defender, Clean Air

The bigger picture: Connecting the dots between health and the environment

What do asthma, contaminated drinking water and climate change have in common? They’re all symptoms of the same root problem: pollution harming both our planet and our people.
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