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“This standard limits the amount of mercury, heavy metals, hydrochloric acid and other toxic pollutants that power plants are allowed to release into our environment, and there is no question we need those limits to be as strong as possible.

"I would like for my kids to look back on the 2020s as the time that we turned the corner on climate change, just like we look back on the 1970s for air quality in the 1980s, for the ozone hole.

Enbridge’s pipeline disaster record includes the Kalamazoo River spill in 2010, the largest inland oil spill in US history.

“Holding the public hearing now, before the Army Corps has all the information it needs to fully assess the risks to our wetlands and waterways, is premature and unfairly deprives the public of a meaningful opportunity to participate in the process,” said Brett Korte, staff attorney with Clean Wisconsin.

New EPA standards will slash carbon, coal ash, mercury, contaminated wastewater and other toxic pollution from power plants

Twenty-four years ago, Wisconsin Electric Power Company launched the largest power plant building spree our state had ever seen.

About 355,000 Wisconsinites are served by systems that do not meet the new EPA standards for PFAS.

“This bill puts the burden of PFAS cleanup on Wisconsin taxpayers instead of polluters. It isn’t fair, and it doesn’t reflect the values of our state,” says Clean Wisconsin Water and Agriculture Program Director Sara Walling.

By Matt Ouren, Stakeholder Engagement Manager & Tom Agger, Clean Buildings Manager  2009 called… it wants its building codes back.

Located just 4 miles from downtown Middleton, Holy Wisdom Monastery sits on 130 acres of restored prairie surrounded by an oak forest with a small glacial lake.