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Securing Wisconsin’s Energy Future – A Wisconsin’s Green Fire Policy Analysis
February 11, 2020
Download WGF Energy Policy Analysis pdf (11 pages)
A paradigm shift is happening in the energy industry worldwide. New ways of managing how and where energy is distributed, and how energy waste is reduced, have become prominent opportunities in the world of energy.
Evidence of these changes are all around …
Read More >State Legislature Reviews Water Quality Task Force Bills
A package of 13 bills put forward by the Speaker’s Task Force on Water Quality is making its way through the state legislature. The legislative session ends March 25, 2020. The total package, costing $10 million is considered a down payment toward the actions needed to protect drinking water in Wisconsin. Provisions to increase funding for county conservation staff and to reduce nitrate pollution line up with recommendations made by Wisconsin’s Green Fire.
Read More >Wisconsin Academy Report Recommends Urgent Climate Change Responses – Briefing January 15
The urgent need to respond to our changing climate – whether reducing carbon levels in the atmosphere and mitigating impacts of global warming, or adapting to extreme weather events we’re already experiencing – should be discussed and debated in terms of the other significant benefits those actions will achieve.
Trumpeting such co-benefits, from improved public health to a cleaner and sustainable environment, could boost public support for climate change responses and increase the chances those steps will be taken by the state and local governments, as well as businesses and property owners.
Those were among the views expressed by participants at a Jan. 15 briefing on the Climate Fast Forward report released by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
Governor’s Climate Change Task Force Starts Work
Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes opened the first meeting of the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change held December 19 in Madison by reminding its 31 members of the urgency of both mitigating the severity of climate change and helping communities adapt to its impacts.
Read More >Wisconsin Legislators Take on Climate Change
Climate change is part of our daily lives: Wisconsin is warmer and wetter than in the past and its residents are experiencing more frequent extreme storms that cause flooding, damage roads and destroy forests.
Responding to Wisconsin’s changing climate would become a public policy priority through a package of legislative proposals, known as Forward on Climate, …
Read More >Comments on WDNR Chronic Wasting Disease Guidance on Responding to New Detections in Wild Deer – October 2019
Wisconsin has a proud tradition of hunting, especially for white-tailed deer. Wisconsin DNR is responsible for managing deer populations across the state. The appearance of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) threatens both herd health and the hunting tradition as we know it.
While the area of Wisconsin where CWD is considered endemic is growing, most of our state …
Read More >Governor Signs 2019 Wetland Mitigation Bill
On November 25, 2019 Governor Evers signed Senate Bill 169 into law as 2019 Wisconsin Act 59. The bill was designed to steer wetland mitigation closer to the site of a development project by requiring developers who elect to purchase mitigation bank credits to try to buy them near the site and within the same …
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.
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