Despite the mounting costs to our environment, health, and economy, fossil fuels appear to be staging a comeback in Wisconsin. A coal plant slated for retirement is being kept online. Massive new methane “natural” gas plants are being approved to power energy-hungry AI data centers. And oil pipelines, like Enbridge Energy’s Line 5, are angling to expand through some of our most sensitive ecosystems.
Together, these developments threaten to lock Wisconsin into decades of outdated, polluting energy at the critical moment we need to accelerate toward a clean energy future.
But Clean Wisconsin is pushing back. We’re in court, at the Public Service Commission, and in communities across the state. We are fighting to defend clean air and clean water, protect public health, and move Wisconsin forward.
In this issue of The Defender, you’ll learn:
- How the contested case hearing over Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 pipeline puts Wisconsin’s longstanding water protections to the test against the interests of a foreign fossil fuel company. – Read More
- How the expansion of AI data centers is straining our transition to a clean electrical grid, leading to new gas plant approvals in southeast Wisconsin. – Read More
- What’s behind We Energies’ decision to a delay coal plant retirement, again, and how it’s driving up energy costs for Wisconsin families and businesses. – Read More
- And how Trump Administration actions are disrupting our energy system and putting Wisconsinites on the hook for the cost. – Read More
We won’t let these threats to progress go unchallenged. A clean, affordable, and just energy future is still within reach, but we have to fight for it.
