Category: Climate and Energy

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.

New pollution standards for coal and gas-fired power plants would have an enormous impact on public health and carbon emissions in Wisconsin.

A planned methane gas plant for Superior, Wis., is increasingly likely to become an expensive, outdated waste of ratepayer money. That’s according to...

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.

A quarter of the corn grown in Wisconsin—about a million acres—is used to produce ethanol. But a new analysis from Clean Wisconsin reveals that when it comes to land use, the state could reap far more energy from solar.

Methane—the primary component of natural gas—is itself a potent greenhouse gas. Although methane breaks down in the atmosphere faster than CO2, it has a stronger warming effect than CO2 while it is there.

  Wisconsin can slash carbon emissions and transform our economy within a generation.  Our recently published Roadmap to Net Zero by 2050 paints a beautiful picture of Wisconsin’s future.

Achieving Net Zero Would Expand Wisconsin’s Economy While Saving Billions in Healthcare Costs There is a pathway for Wisconsin to achieve a net-zero future within a generation.

When you think of Wisconsin, you think of agriculture. Thirty percent of Wisconsin’s land is used for agriculture– that is 64,400 farms on 14.3 million acres. Wisconsin agriculture contributes 16.4% to our state’s economy, $104.8 billion annually. We also export $3.

EPA is challenging the environmental review of Nemadji Trail Energy Center. Last year, we asked you speak out to stop a federally subsidized loan sought by Dairyland Power Cooperative to help fund the Nemadji Trail Energy Center. And you responded.