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Reinforced Protections Against Untreated Animal Waste

January 30, 2024

Clean Wisconsin's intervention in a lawsuit targeting the state's water pollution permitting program helped maintain crucial protections for our surface and groundwaters.…

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Supreme Court Win: High-Capacity Well Protections

December 25, 2021

In Clean Wisconsin v. DNR, the Supreme Court ruled that the DNR can use its permitting authority to protect the water resources we all share from overuse.…

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Supreme Court Win: CAFO Water Protections

December 25, 2021

In Clean Wisconsin v. Department of Natural Resources, the Supreme Court ruled the DNR must exercise its authority to protect Wisconsin’s water resources from manure pollution.…

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Saved Rare Wisconsin Wetland

December 16, 2021

In 2021, Clean Wisconsin secured another legal victory to protect one of our state's rarest types of ecosystems.…

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MGE Rate Case Settlement

October 25, 2021

Settlement reduced Madison Gas & Electric's fixed-rate electricity charge.…

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Air Pollution Protections: Clean Wisconsin v. EPA

December 25, 2020

Our 2020 victory in the Clean Wisconsin v. EPA lawsuit won important clean air protections for Wisconsin.…

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Established New Standards for Industrial Air Pollutants

July 25, 2017

A legal case brought by Clean Wisconsin against the EPA in 2017 forced the agency to adopt new health standards for more than a dozen harmful industrial sources.…

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Adoption of EPA Clean Power Plan

August 24, 2016

The Clean Power Plan set the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants in the United States.…

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Passed Statewide Microbead Ban

July 1, 2016

Small plastic particles called microbeads used to flood Wisconsin's waterways until a statewide ban was signed into law with sweeping support.…

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Protected Van Loon Bottoms State Natural Area

May 24, 2016

Clean Wisconsin helped protect this critical natural area from a transmission line project.…

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