The Defender

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.

Earlier this year, Clean Wisconsin’s Science Program Director, Paul Mathewson, went a step further than the average scientist. He dove deep into cross-referencing the carbon calculations reported within the agriculture sector module of the EPA’s State Inventory Tool.

What is the extent of PFAS contamination in Wisconsin's drinking water? This column looks at two sources of information to provide some insight into that question.

In 2023, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin approved six new solar farms totaling 1.3 gigawatts. That’s about twice the amount approved the prior year. This puts our state on pace to achieve net-zero emissions across our economy by mid-century.

This was an unusual winter for Wisconsin with less snow and higher temps than average, but two weeks of brutal cold in January raised concerns about energy reliability. In the U.S.

The Mississippi River, often referred to as the lifeline of the United States, holds profound ecological, cultural, and economic significance.

Last fall, Clean Wisconsin and our partners at the Dairy Business Association, Wisconsin Land and Water and the Nature Conservancy worked with Republican and Democratic state lawmakers to introduce legislation that creates a program to help farmers establish managed grazing systems on their land.

Clean Wisconsin was proud to sponsor this year’s African American Environmental Pioneer Awards, hosted at the Ivy House in downtown Milwaukee on February 19. The fifth annual award AAEPA ceremony honored members of the Milwaukee African American community for their leadership in environmental work.

This month marks my 25th year at Clean Wisconsin. I remember the day in 1999, when I met then Executive Director, Pam Porter, at a coffee shop in Madison.