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While the 2023 legislative session ended without passage of the Transition to Grass Pilot Program legislation, Clean Wisconsin’s advocacy for the “Grazing Bill” hasn’t stopped.

On April 11th, Clean Wisconsin celebrated our 10th annual Epicurean Evening gala, bringing together over 400 members, advocates, and supporters from all over the state.

There is no question that my favorite season is summer. All year, I look forward to long, warm runs outside, pontooning on Madison lakes, canoeing down the lower Wisconsin River, gardening, and raucous backyard gatherings with friends that stretch late into the evening.

The controversial proposal by Enbridge Energy to reroute a segment of its Line 5 oil and gas pipeline in northern Wisconsin has reached another critical inflection point. On May 20, the U.S.

“This standard limits the amount of mercury, heavy metals, hydrochloric acid and other toxic pollutants that power plants are allowed to release into our environment, and there is no question we need those limits to be as strong as possible.

"I would like for my kids to look back on the 2020s as the time that we turned the corner on climate change, just like we look back on the 1970s for air quality in the 1980s, for the ozone hole.

Enbridge’s pipeline disaster record includes the Kalamazoo River spill in 2010, the largest inland oil spill in US history.

“Holding the public hearing now, before the Army Corps has all the information it needs to fully assess the risks to our wetlands and waterways, is premature and unfairly deprives the public of a meaningful opportunity to participate in the process,” said Brett Korte, staff attorney with Clean Wisconsin.

New EPA standards will slash carbon, coal ash, mercury, contaminated wastewater and other toxic pollution from power plants

Twenty-four years ago, Wisconsin Electric Power Company launched the largest power plant building spree our state had ever seen.