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Wisconsin

Road Salts Wash Into Mississippi River, Damaging Ecosystems and Pipes

Chloride levels are increasing at all Wisconsin monitoring sites and across the Upper Mississippi River basin.

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A loader carries a load of salt to a waiting truck Dec. 13, 2022 on Jones Island in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Credit: Mark Hoffman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A sign, placed by the EPA, warns people not to play on the lawn at the West Calumet Housing Complex on April 19, 2017 in East Chicago, Indiana. Nearly all the residents of the complex were ordered to move by the East Chicago Housing Authority after the soil and many homes were found to contain high levels of lead. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin Lag on Environmental Justice Issues

By Grace van Deelen

Kenosha water tower is seen in front of Lake Michigan in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Nov. 4, 2021. Credit: Youngrae Kim for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Wisconsin Advocates Push to Ensure $700 Million in Water Infrastructure Improvements Go to Those Who Need It Most

By Aydali Campa

LEFT: Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is running to become the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, greets guests during a campaign event at The Wicked Hop on Aug. 7, 2022 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images RIGHT: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) arrives a rally on Oct. 25, 2022 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

One Candidate for Wisconsin’s Senate Race Wants to Put the State ‘In the Driver’s Seat’ of the Clean Energy Economy. The Other Calls Climate Science ‘Lunacy’

By Aydali Campa

Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Wheeler in Wisconsin: Putting a Green Veneer on the Actions of Trump’s EPA

By Marianne Lavelle

Demonstrators protest against the frac sand industry in Winona on April 29, 2013

Minn. Draws Line in the Frac Sand Boom

By Zahra Hirji

A sand mining facility in Grantsburg, Wisc.

'Frac Sand' Boom: Health Hazard Feared

By Zahra Hirji

Regulators Get Tough on Enbridge

By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News

Blue Sky Green Field Wind Farm

Another Blow to Wisconsin's Clean Economy?

By Maria Gallucci, SolveClimate News

Wind turbines in Wisconsin

Developer Pulls Plug on Wisconsin Wind Farm

By Maria Gallucci

Wis. Senator Defeated with Clean Energy Message

By Elizabeth McGowan

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