Environment
Big Ag Wants High Capacity Wells
$152,000 campaign donations, $183,000 lobbying by potato, vegetable growers.
Mar 2nd, 2017 by Matt Rothschild
Tracking Great Lakes’ Plastic Pollution
Lake Michigan has the biggest problem. New technique measures, tracks it.
Feb 27th, 2017 by Abigail Heath
Walker Should Emulate Kasich On Energy
Wisconsin should do more to embrace alternative energy as economic tool.
Feb 16th, 2017 by Josh Zepnick
Mega Farms Are Big Political Donors
And their high capacity wells are draining rivers and lakes in state.
Feb 15th, 2017 by Matt Rothschild
Wisconsin Leads in Climate Change Study
Even as state agencies censor the issue, UW is national leader in its research.
Jan 31st, 2017 by Kari Lydersen, Energy News Network
State Plans For Climate Change
Even as DNR backs away, Emergency Management releases climate change strategy.
Jan 25th, 2017 by Rob Moore
Global Warming Hits Great Lakes Forests
Warmer weather, more drought will impact ecosystem, huge forestry industry.
Jan 22nd, 2017 by Marie Orttenburger
Scott Walker, the King of Coal
Businesses and GOP voters are embracing alternative energy. Not Gov. Walker.
Jan 17th, 2017 by Bruce Murphy
Will Trump Ape Wisconsin DNR?
State’s scrubbing of all climate change info could be a model for Trump administration.
Jan 12th, 2017 by Andrew Revkin
The Pro-Pollution Legislators
Tiffany and Jarchow get big payoffs from special interests, and rural folks get tainted drinking water.
Jan 10th, 2017 by Matt Rothschild
The Anti-Green Governor
While Republicans like John Kasich embrace green measures to boost jobs, Walker rejects them all.
Jan 6th, 2017 by James Rowen
Sand Mining Project Targets Wetlands
Meteor Timber donates $23,000 to state politicians, wants to destroy 17 acres of forested wetlands.
Jan 5th, 2017 by Matt Rothschild
