"This is a company that time and time again has taken a shortsighted, profit-driven approach to energy production and planning, and its customers are paying for it.
Whitewater Solar is a 180-megawatt solar farm proposed in Jefferson and Walworth Counties that would bring up to $150 million in local investment, create hundreds of construction jobs, and provide lasting environmental benefits.
Consumers Energy, the utility that owns the plant, wants to recoup costs to bring the plant back online through price increases on customers across the Midwest grid.
What’s it going to take to make clean energy Wisconsin’s new normal? It helps to have a bunch of fresh-faced new college graduates ready to take on the world.
A little more than a year after announcing its first ever drinking water standards for toxic PFAS chemicals, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reversing course, announcing it intends to rescind regulations for four key types of toxic PFAS compounds.
Many farmers are choosing to integrate solar panels into their fields. Now a new analysis shows that decision can impact a lot more than energy costs and the climate.