Managing Dredged Sediment from Lakes Michigan and Superior
John Robinson testified on Assembly Bill 347 on October 31, 2019 at the Assembly Committee on the Environment. John helped the Committee understand the ramifications of a bill to allow sand dredged from Lakes Michigan and Superior to be exempted from certain solid waste regulations. The bill would relax oversight of placement of dredged material …
Read More >Climate Fast Forward
“Action is needed now.”
In expressing that urgent call to respond quickly to the Earth’s changing climate and its increasingly disruptive and destructive impacts, Dan Vimont captured in a few words the shared commitment of more than 300 Wisconsin residents attending a Nov. 8 Climate Fast Forward conference in Madison.
Vimont, director of the Nelson Institute’s Center …
Read More >Scope of NR 151 – State Rules for Agricultural Practices to Reduce Nitrate Pollution of Groundwater in Sensitive Areas
Wisconsin’s Green Fire’s commented on the scope of NR 151 rule changes to address agricultural practices affecting nitrate pollution of groundwater in sensitive areas, Nitrate in groundwater is a significant concern for public health in Wisconsin. WGF comments stress the importance of agricultural producers, conservationists, and leaders working together to meet the challenge. NR 151 revision is a key state policy to meet the challenge.
Read More >Wisconsin’s 2019 Air Quality Success Faces Challenges
Most Wisconsin residents can breathe easy: fully 95 percent of the population lives in areas meeting federal air quality standards. That is the good news within the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 2019 Air Quality Trends Report that found continuing improvement as concentrations of several pollutants decreased throughout the state. But recent federal activities threaten to erase the significant achievements highlighted in the report.
Read More >Glen Moberg sings “Aldo Leopold’s Shack”
Glen Moberg plays his original song “Aldo Leopold’s Shack.”
Read More >Working Together, Working Better: 2019 Wisconsin’s Green Fire Annual Meeting
Wisconsin’s Green Fire wants you to be part of the discussion at our third Annual Membership Meeting, Oct. 4-5 at Treehaven. Everyone can be actively involved in the weekend. Please join us. We value your input. Members are the soul of our organization.
Read More >Nitrogen in Wisconsin Waters and Health Effects of Nitrate in Drinking Water – WGF Videos
Nitrogen in Wisconsin Waters and Health Effects of Nitrate in Drinking Water – WGF members presenting on nitrogen in Wisconsin waters and the health effects of nitrate in drinking water.
Read More >Nitrates in Wisconsin Waters – A Wisconsin’s Green Fire Policy Analysis
While Wisconsin has among the finest freshwater resources in North America, an increasingly large number of Wisconsin communities, homes, schools, and businesses find their water sources unsafe to drink. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan was a wake-up call about the hazards of water supplies we once assumed would always be safe. The total scope of the water quality crisis in Wisconsin today is much larger however than one community or one region. Wisconsin needs a drinking water solution equal to the magnitude of the problem. This paper lays out elements of that solution.
Read More >Cropland Management and Water Quality – Phosphorus, Pathogens and Manure Management, Antibiotics and Manure Management
WGF releases a series of videos of members presenting on the relationship between cropping practices and water quality in Wisconsin, based on current science. This information draws from the expertise of water quality and public health scientists from DNR and the university system as well as agricultural conservation experience from WI Dept of Agriculture and …
Read More >WGF Comment to WI Public Service Commission on Cardinal Hickory Creek Transmission Project
WGF members have evaluated the application for the proposed CHC high voltage transmission line (hvtl) by the Public Service Commission (PSC) of Wisconsin. WGF requests that the PSC refer to the previously submitted WGF comments regarding the proposed CHC for the draft Environmental Impact Statement for more information, PSC reference number 364009 in Docket 5-CE-146.
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