by Amber Meyer Smith | Dec 10, 2020 | climate change
For almost a year, the Governor’s Climate Change Task Force has been meeting to discuss ways Wisconsin can tackle climate change and help communities that are already experiencing its dramatic impacts. I was honored to be one of the 32 members appointed to serve on...
by Chelsea Chandler | Oct 2, 2020 | climate change, Electric Vehicles, Energy & Climate
The widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is a critical step in weaning our state off our unsustainable and unhealthy use of fossil fuels that drives local air pollution and global climate change. One of the main barriers to expanding EV use is access to...
by Jon Drewsen | Aug 20, 2020 | climate change, Podcast
Two years ago, the small village of Mazomanie, in Dane County’s northwestern corner, saw the small creek that runs through the center of their town grow into a raging river as record rains fell in an unprecedented storm. After it was all over, the region saw...
by Jon Drewsen | May 22, 2020 | climate change, dirty coal, Press Releases
MADISON, WI — Clean Wisconsin strongly supports Alliant Energy’s plan to retire the Edgewater Unit 5 coal plants in Sheboygan by the end of 2022, which the utility announced Friday morning.“We’re pleased to see Alliant Energy making future-focused decisions to their...
by Jon Drewsen | Apr 24, 2020 | climate change, Energy & Climate
As a start to Earth Week, Dane County leaders released their Climate Action Plan on Monday, April 20. The plan charts a way forward for the county to meet carbon reduction goals and prepares the county for the impacts of climate change in a way that creates economic...
by Paul Mathewson | Mar 10, 2020 | climate change, Energy & Climate, Under the Lens column
One of the anticipated impacts of climate change in Wisconsin is an increase in extreme storms and subsequent flood events. Those of us in southern Wisconsin got a taste of this from the storm in 2018 that dropped nearly of a foot rain in parts of Dane County, and...
