Category: Clean Air

"There is action we can take right now to ensure that Wisconsin is part of the climate solution.

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.

Despite the mounting costs to our environment, health, and economy, fossil fuels appear to be staging a comeback in Wisconsin.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

  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.

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.

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.