Category: Blog

New Plant Hardiness Zone Maps have caused a stir among Wisconsin farmers and gardeners. They confirm something many avid gardeners have already observed: our climate is changing.

Four environmental and agricultural groups, working as partners to bring about long-term solutions to Wisconsin’s water quality issues, cheered the signing of legislation this week to update the state’s farmland preservation program. The bipartisan bill, signed by Gov.

Wisconsin Republicans and Democrats are coming together to help farmers put more livestock out on grazing pasture. The Senate and Assembly recently introduced legislation to create a “Transition to Grass” program...

Clean Wisconsin Resilient Communities Director Nancy Retana will become chair of the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern Community Advisory Committee (CAC) in January. Committee members unanimously chose Retana for the role at their meeting on Tuesday.

Clean Wisconsin has filed a brief with the U.S.

Wisconsinites want a healthy environment. They want a functioning state government where differences of opinion result in collaboration and compromise.

Just one year after President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, it’s already creating positive change in Wisconsin.

By Jacob Ahrens-Balwit, Strategic Communications Manager, and Katherine (Kata) Young, Natural Climate Solutions Manager.    Before millions of acres of native oak trees, prairie grasses and wildflowers were replaced by annual rotations of row crops, the landscapes of Wisconsin were a self-sustaining tapestry of life.

  To achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, Wisconsin must harness the power of clean energy. We need to build 31 gigawatts (GW) of solar and 21 GW of wind energy projects by the middle of the century to reach net-zero.

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.