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Here's why we don't need another gas plant in Wisconsin.

If you think your well may be contaminated, here are some steps you should take to protect you and your family from the health risks associated with polluted drinking water.

These local actions demonstrate that Wisconsin residents and communities are ready to tackle climate change, and they will play an important role in informing and supporting state action towards the goal of a carbon-free energy future.

Using green infrastructure practices to cool the urban heat island, improve air quality, and increase the infiltration and capture of rainwater, Milwaukee has become a national leader in efforts adapt to a warming world due to climate change.

If lawmakers are serious about protecting clean drinking water, they will sign on in support of the CLEAR Act.

Without this goal as a starting point, we wouldn’t get anywhere.

Legislators have heard from citizens, researchers, county officials, and many other stakeholders about the diversity of water issues Wisconsin citizens face but haven’t given a lot of indication about what actions they are prepared to take to address these challenges.

Each year the need for protecting Wisconsin’s environment comes into sharp focus on trips to summer cabins, while boating on Lake Superior, fishing on a northern Wisconsin lake, or running through woods or past fields of coneflowers on Picnic Point in Madison.

During the Year of Clean Drinking Water, lawmakers and state agencies under the leadership of Gov. Evers have started to take early but important steps to curb PFAS pollution and protect public health in Wisconsin.

Clean Wisconsin and nine other environmental organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday opposing the Trump Administration’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, arguing the rule unlawfully sidesteps the Clean Air Act by relaxing emission standards that will increase carbon emissions and harm public health.