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MADISON — Joint Finance Committee leaders announced today that they plan to remove a provision from the state budget that would have delayed the implementation of Wisconsin’s phosphorus rule by two years.

Fees support Wisconsin’s recycling program MADISON — New data shows that the amount of out-of-state waste coming to Wisconsin landfills dropped dramatically in 2010, the first full year that Wisconsin instituted an increased tipping fee – the fee charged to dump waste in landfills.

Measure must be fixed to protect Wisconsin’s lakes, rivers and streams MADISON — In a surprising move last night, the Joint Finance Committee voted on party lines to pass a measure that would require the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to repeal and recreate NR151, a decade-old rule package that protects Wisconsin’s lakes, rivers and