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- Reckless Milwaukee drivers pushing conservatives out of traditional lane
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Browsing: Enviroment
The biggest data centers planned for Wisconsin are not a threat to local water systems or to Lake Michigan — a fact opponents either can’t believe or won’t admit.
State Rep. Joy Goeben and state Sen. Steve Nass have introduced a bill that would prohibit local governments from enacting a “rights of nature” ordinance.
Fifteen kids — one only eight years old — just filed a lawsuit in Dane County, claiming that they are particularly vulnerable to air pollution and fossil fuel-caused climate change.
As a Wisconsin stewardship program is up for renewal, northern counties’ budgets, economies are squeezed by how much land already is taken out of equation
Predictions of rising Wisconsin power demand are driven by plans for data centers, the electricity-gulping organs of the online economy.
The population of wolves roaming Wisconsin’s forests and farmlands exceeded 1,000 in 2023, data from the latest Department of Natural Resources wolf monitoring report show.
The owner of a now-shuttered nuclear power plant near Kewaunee announced it was seeking a license that could let it reopen the plant.
Spent uranium isn’t the plant owners’ responsibility because Uncle Sam bigfooted his way into the matter in 1982, then accomplished nothing.
Rep. David Steffen and Sen. Julian Bradley are circulating a joint resolution supporting expansion of nuclear energy production in Wisconsin.
Port Washington’s announcement of another billion-dollar data center project in southeastern Wisconsin is focusing attention on the challenge of meeting the voracious energy needs of this new economic opportunity.
Wisconsin’s biggest metropolis enjoys the third-highest concentration of manufacturing jobs in the country. The EPA’s redesignation, dropped with little warning in early December, could kill that.
By the numbers The number of deer harvested in Wisconsin each season has seen a steadily downward trend since its…
Small nuclear modular reactors are a big deal for Wisconsin, given our developing AI economy and Gov. Evers’ Clean Energy Plan.
America’s energy grids are strained, and Michigan is reconsidering nuclear’s role in meeting consumer demand. Wisconsin, too, should take note.
A planned solar farm in central Wisconsin may claim the greater prairie-chicken as an unintended casualty.
Wisconsinites are very lucky to in the state that they do. And the rest of disaster-ridden America is fortunate to have us living here as well.
Wisconsin experienced its warmest winter ever recorded in 2023-2024, according to a recent report by the Wisconsin State Climatology Office. The report’s authors attributed this to the unusually strong El Niño experienced this year, as well as a “long-term warming trend.”
Dreaming of a white Christmas? Your odds are better if you live up north than in Milwaukee.
Despite all of the millions of dollars, time spent and inconveniences imposed, it’s nearly impossible to determine if Wisconsin’s emission testing program meaningfully decreases exhaust emissions that form ozone and damage air quality.
Climate change alarmism has become a science of its own.

