Category: Clean Air

Senate Republicans have passed a bill that will mean more pollution, higher energy costs, more extraction on public lands, and lost jobs here in Wisconsin.

"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.

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.

Wisconsin communities are pushing back against the Trump Administration’s efforts to slash funding for clean energy, pollution cleanup, and infrastructure improvements, warning that these cuts will have harmful local consequences.

  Microsoft is walking back its long-touted commitment to clean energy as the company seeks to build more artificial intelligence data centers in the Midwest.

It this episode, Amy talks with a small town Wisconsin lawmaker who is leading her community’s charge to get the lead our of our air. And she’s got an eye-opening study that shows how our drinking water could be at risk too.

What do asthma, contaminated drinking water and climate change have in common? They’re all symptoms of the same root problem: pollution harming both our planet and our people.

There is no question a long list of important federal environmental protections and programs will be targeted during the next presidential administration.

“Protecting the water we drink, the air we breathe, the places where we swim and fish, our climate—these should not be partisan issues. If these are things we all care about, we’re going to have to fight hard for them.

Wisconsin is on the verge of an expensive gas construction boom if utilities like We Energies and Alliant Energy have their way.