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Category: Blog

Posted on December 13, 2024 By Jacob Ahrens-Balwit, Strategic Communications Manager
In Blog, As Seen in the Defender, Climate and Energy

On American energy independence: Freedom doesn’t come in barrels

Bruce Steinhagen, a resident of Algoma, Wisconsin, is proud of his new solar panels. The system can produce about as much energy as Bruce needs to power his entire home—a recent electric bill was only $2.
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Posted on December 13, 2024 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Climate and Energy

Midwest grid operator approves plan that will support dramatic clean energy growth in Wisconsin

“Wisconsin is moving from relying on dangerous, expensive coal and gas power plants to clean solar, wind, and batteries. More transmission lines directly enable a clean electricity future that is reliable and affordable.
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The Bad River at Copper Falls State Park. Photo: Clean Wisconsin
Posted on December 12, 2024 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Clean Water, Legal News

Clean Wisconsin, partners move to block Line 5 permits

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued permits in November that would allow Canadian oil giant Enbridge to clear trees, dig trenches and fill wetlands to make way for a new 41-mile segment of its Line 5 pipeline.
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Title: How to eat for the environment. Image: Kathryn (Kata) Young
Posted on December 10, 2024 By Clean Wisconsin
In Podcast, Agriculture

How to eat for the environment

It’s food season, also known as the holidays! And what you choose to put on your plate actually has an impact on the world around you.
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Gas-fired power plant
Posted on December 6, 2024 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Clean Water, Climate and Energy, Legal News

Clean Wisconsin brings gas plant challenge to Supreme Court

The plant would release almost 3 million tons of greenhouse gases and 200 tons of other dangerous pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds every year in a neighborhood already burdened by industrial emissions
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Line 5 marker in field near Ashland, Wis.
Posted on November 14, 2024 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Clean Water, Climate and Energy

Clean Wisconsin considers legal challenge to Line 5 permits

The proposed pipeline route, which crosses 186 northern Wisconsin waterways and hundreds of acres of wetlands, is upstream of Copper Falls State Park and poses a huge risk to the Bad River watershed and Lake Superior.
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Posted on November 7, 2024 By Clean Wisconsin
In Press Releases, Clean Air, Clean Water, Climate and Energy

Critical federal environmental protections, climate initiatives will be targeted in next administration

“Protecting the water we drink, the air we breathe, the places where we swim and fish, our climate—these should not be partisan issues. If these are things we all care about, we’re going to have to fight hard for them.
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Open Letter to Microsoft image
Posted on October 22, 2024 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Climate and Energy

More Than 1,000 Wisconsinites Sign Open Letter to Microsoft

People from across Wisconsin are joining environmental and health advocates to call on Microsoft to power its new AI data center with local clean energy.
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Image of a plate with corn, other vegetables
Posted on October 13, 2024 By Clean Wisconsin
In Podcast, Agriculture, Clean Water

Neurotoxins on Our Plates

For the past 25 years, we've been putting neurotoxins on our food. Neonicotinoids are potent chemicals that attack the central nervous systems of insects.
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Old lead water pipe
Posted on October 8, 2024 By Amy Barrilleaux, Communications Director
In Press Releases, Uncategorized, Clean Water

EPA requires removal of all lead pipes within a decade

In 10 years, Wisconsin families will no longer be drinking water contaminated with toxic lead from lead service lines.
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