Environment

• MMSD Plans $1.4 Billion of Improvements

  Feb 15th, 2019 by Graham Kilmer

  Sewerage district has ambitious six-year plan for 411-square-mile regions it serves.

• Op Ed

  DNR Must Stop Coal Pollution

  Feb 14th, 2019 by Carl Lindner

  We Energies pollutes Lake Michigan, adding to toxic mercury levels harmful to babies.

• Huge Water Project for Foxconn Continues

  Feb 12th, 2019 by Will Cushman

  Racine water utility expected company to use 7 million gallons daily, but current needs unclear.

• State To Review Foxconn Air, Water Permits

  Feb 6th, 2019 by Shawn Johnson

  Evers says DNR review needed to see whether changes are necessary.

• Op Ed

  Bipartisan Stewardship Fund Will Expire

  Feb 1st, 2019 by Spencer Black

  Largest initiative in state history has protected large tracts of land, but now imperiled.

• Massive Solar Proposal Divides Community

  Jan 30th, 2019 by Sarah Whites-Koditschek

  Iowa County project, largest in Midwest, leaves farm community divided.

• City and We Energies In Solar Standoff

  Jan 25th, 2019 by Kari Lydersen

  Utility won’t allow city to work with third party solar provider, aldermen blast We Energies.

• Federal Data

  State’s Coal Use Increased In 2017!

  Jan 15th, 2019 by Phoebe Petrovic

  More than half of power came from coal. But change is underway.

• 2018 One of Wettest Years in State History

  Jan 7th, 2019 by Phoebe Petrovic

  Milwaukee had third wettest year in history, part of upward trend in annual rainfall.

• Renewable Energy Made Big Gains in 2018

  Jan 2nd, 2019 by Rich Kremer

  Utility companies all competing to embrace solar and wind power.

• ‘Dead Zones’ Growing in State, Midwest

  Dec 20th, 2018 by Brady Carlson

  As nutrient runoff depletes oxygen from parts of rivers and lakes, fish can’t live there.

• We Energies Seeks Solar Monopoly?

  Dec 19th, 2018 by Kari Lydersen

  Critics charge its rent-a-roof program could create monopoly, increase costs for some customers.