Environment

• Campaign Cash

  Farm Pollution Rules May Get Killed

  Dec 10th, 2019 by Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

  Big business lobby WMC and Big Agriculture donors oppose the rules.

• State Leads in Cutting Pollution Control

  Dec 8th, 2019 by Danielle Kaeding

  Funding decline of 36% from 2008-2018, biggest in U.S., Walker helped drive change.

• Behold the Democratic Green Team

  Dec 4th, 2019 by Isiah Holmes

  “Forward on Climate” package includes bills on green banks, weatherizing schools.

• Op Ed

  Let the Fish Run Free

  Dec 3rd, 2019 by Milwaukee Riverkeeper

  Let’s move to create fish passage at the Kletzsch Park dam.

• Great Lakes Echo

  Tracking Balloon Debris in Great Lakes

  Dec 3rd, 2019 by Tasia Bass Cont

  New website tracks this. Balloons 32 times more likely to kill wildlife than hard plastics.

• Op Ed

  Lessons of the Lower Wisconsin River

  Dec 2nd, 2019 by Spencer Black

  Beautifully conserved, it's the longest free flowing river left in the Midwest.

• State Grants Target Diesel Emissions

  Dec 2nd, 2019 by Miranda Suarez

  Goal is to get buses, other vehicles to switch to cleaner liquid propane.

• Eau Claire Embraces Electric Cars

  Nov 29th, 2019 by John Davis

  First city in Wisconsin to approve a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

• City Hall

  Council Bans Most Plastic Straws

  Nov 26th, 2019 by Jeramey Jannene

  Use by bars and restaurants prohibited unless customers request them.

• Evers Commits to Paris Climate Accords

  Nov 25th, 2019 by Isiah Holmes

  Lt. Gov. Barnes joins a call with experts and city leaders ahead of UN COP25.

• Climate Change Threatens 23 Superfund Sites

  Nov 20th, 2019 by Ruth Conniff

  Federal watchdog agency report finds 23 of 44 sites in state are vulnerable to flood hazard.

• Kaul Opposes Enbridge Oil Pipeline

  Nov 20th, 2019 by Danielle Kaeding

  Wisconsin attorney general backs Michigan against oil pipeline through Great Lakes waters.