Category: Clean Air

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.

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.

Wisconsin communities will retain the ability to adopt policies phasing out the use of dangerous fossil fuels, thanks to Gov. Evers’ veto of Senate Bill 49.

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

“The public health threat that we’ve been enduring for weeks must be a wakeup call for policymakers. Fires in places like Canada and the western United States are both products and causes of climate change.