Category: Legal News

The EPA is fighting the landmark legal decision that allowed it to fight climate change.

Judge to Hear Opening Statements and Public Testimony on August 12

Recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions are bringing much-needed good news in the fight to protect our environment.

The Wisconsin State Supreme Court found it is unconstitutional for a legislative committee to block rules created by state agencies implementing the law. The ruling has a direct impact on environmental protections across Wisconsin.

Dozens of rules and regulations that protect our air, water, land, endangered species and more are being targeted.

Clean Wisconsin's legal team is making progress on a pair of major cases: fighting the Line 5 oil pipeline and opposing new gas plants.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued permits in November that would allow Canadian oil giant Enbridge to clear trees, dig trenches and fill wetlands to make way for a new 41-mile segment of its Line 5 pipeline.

The plant would release almost 3 million tons of greenhouse gases and 200 tons of other dangerous pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds every year in a neighborhood already burdened by industrial emissions

Calgary-based Enbridge, Inc. is seeking permits from the DNR that would allow the company to reroute its pipeline across 186 northern Wisconsin waterways and 612 acres of wetlands.

"This Court is setting out at the beginning, not the end, of a project to dismantle federal administrative law.