by Jon Drewsen | Apr 24, 2020 | climate change, Energy & Climate
As a start to Earth Week, Dane County leaders released their Climate Action Plan on Monday, April 20. The plan charts a way forward for the county to meet carbon reduction goals and prepares the county for the impacts of climate change in a way that creates economic...
by Paul Mathewson | Mar 10, 2020 | climate change, Energy & Climate, Under the Lens column
One of the anticipated impacts of climate change in Wisconsin is an increase in extreme storms and subsequent flood events. Those of us in southern Wisconsin got a taste of this from the storm in 2018 that dropped nearly of a foot rain in parts of Dane County, and...
by Mark Redsten | Feb 28, 2020 | climate change, Energy & Climate, legal action, Nemadji Trail Energy Center
The Nemadji Trail Energy Center is a bad deal for Wisconsin. Not only will the proposed gas plant add millions of tons of carbon emissions to our air, it will irreparably harm groundwater and destroy important wetlands. Despite these major environmental concerns, the...
by Jon Drewsen | Feb 28, 2020 | Energy & Climate, Nemadji Trail Energy Center
MADISON, WI —Clean Wisconsin and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court on Friday asking for review of the Public Service Commission’s decision to approve construction of a large gas power plant proposed for a site in Superior,...
by Scott Blankman | Feb 12, 2020 | clean energy, climate change, Energy & Climate
When the clock struck midnight on January 1 of this year, another clock started counting down. By the end of the 2020s, says the International Panel on Climate Change, we will need to have made drastic changes to the ways we produce energy, how we use it, and how we...
by Katie Nekola | Jan 17, 2020 | climate change, Energy & Climate, Nemadji Trail Energy Center
On January 16, the Public Service Commission (PSC) approved, by a 2-1 vote, a construction permit for a new, 625 megawatt gas plant in Superior, called the Nemadji Trail Energy Center. Clean Wisconsin argued against construction of this project because the proposed...
