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Decision helps protect environment and the health of Wisconsinites WAUPACA — The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board unanimously adopted a rule today that will require utilities to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by 90 percent by 2015 or by the same percentage by 2021 if they agree to more stringent controls of nitrogen oxide

MADISON — Wisconsin could soon see greater growth in the promising wind energy industry after the Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities passed Assembly Bill 256 today, a bipartisan bill that would encourage growth in the clean energy industry by replacing a chaotic patchwork of local regulations with sensible statewide standards for permitting safe wind

By Mark Redsten, Executive Director MADISON — Every day trucks heaped with trash from neighboring states barrel over the Wisconsin border to dump trash, some of which pollutes our state’s land, air and water.