Category: Clean Air

Wisconsin is on the verge of an expensive gas construction boom if utilities like We Energies and Alliant Energy have their way.

Compared to Wisconsin, Michigan’s wind capacity is four times higher. Minnesota: six times higher. Illinois: ten times higher.

Five years ago, gas power plants were considered consistently dependable and ready to provide power whenever we needed it. But then the 2021 winter storm in Texas, followed by the 2022 winter storm across the Midwest, upended those assumptions.

“This standard limits the amount of mercury, heavy metals, hydrochloric acid and other toxic pollutants that power plants are allowed to release into our environment, and there is no question we need those limits to be as strong as possible.

New EPA standards will slash carbon, coal ash, mercury, contaminated wastewater and other toxic pollution from power plants

Twenty-four years ago, Wisconsin Electric Power Company launched the largest power plant building spree our state had ever seen.

"It’s important for people to understand these cases are not happening in a vacuum. They’re happening one after another on the Federal level and state level all across the country.

Stronger soot pollution limits are expected to prevent 40 premature deaths in Wisconsin every year.

Over half of people of color in Wisconsin cities live within one mile of a facility that emits Hazardous Air Pollution.  By Paul Mathewson, Science Program Director, and Sausann Al Jawhar, Summer Science Research Intern.

  Power plant rules recently proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will have dramatic health impacts here in Wisconsin, according to a new analysis from Clean Wisconsin.