Browsing: Enviroment

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.

One of the following two things happened this month. Guess which one didn’t:

Protecting the environment should be a goal for individuals of every political and economic stripe

Climate change has been blamed over the years for the rise … and fall … and rise again of lake levels

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District’s Impact on Lake Michigan Since 1977, taxpayers in the Milwaukee metropolitan area have paid nearly $3 billion for a state-of-the-art sewerage system. Its centerpiece is the Water Pollution Abatement Program (WPAP), completed in 1996. The WPAP, the largest public works project ever undertaken in Wisconsin, increases the capacity of metropolitan-area

Wisconsin’s state government turned 150 years old this year. Over that time, Wisconsin state government has grown from a few…

A review of university course materials

Budgets are tight. Problems are tough. State and local governments have increased responsibilities, with­ out more money. Problems cut across…

What the textbooks teach