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Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the Democratic incumbent, is challenged by Eric Hovde in the Wisconsin Senate race. Credit: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images and Angela Weiss/AFP

In Wisconsin Senate Race, Voters Will Pick Between Two Candidates With Widely Differing Climate Views

By Kristoffer Tigue

A Wisconsin resident casts their ballot in the state's primary election at a polling location on April 2 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Wisconsin Environmentalists Campaign Against Amendments Altering Federal Grant Allocation

By Lydia Larsen

A wind turbine towers over farmland near Middleton, Wisconsin. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Clean Energy Is Booming in Purple Wisconsin. Just Don’t Mention Climate Change

By Kristoffer Tigue

Rapidan Dam is left damaged on June 25 in Waterville, Minnesota after days of historic flooding hit the Midwest. Credit: Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images

The Minnesota Dam That Partially Failed Is One of Nearly 200 Across the Upper Midwest in Similarly ‘Poor’ Condition

By Kristoffer Tigue

National Guard soldiers walk back by a water pump on a flooded street in Waterville, Minnesota on June 25. Credit: Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images

Widespread Flooding in Upper Midwest Decimates Farm Towns

By Nina B. Elkadi

A high tension electrical power pole is seen in the background of a solar array in Blaine, Minn. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Midwest States Have Approved Hundreds of Renewable Energy Projects. So Why Aren’t They Online?

By Kristoffer Tigue

Heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets downtown St. Paul, Minn. on June 14, 2023. Credit: Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images

The Midwest Could Be in for Another Smoke-Filled Summer. Here’s How States Are Preparing

By Kristoffer Tigue

A National Wildlife Federation diver inspects Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline at the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac. Credit: National Wildlife Federation video screenshot

Biden Administration Slams Enbridge for Ongoing Trespass on Bad River Reservation But Says Pipeline Treaty With Canada Must Be Honored

By Phil McKenna

Construction on the Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line is nearly complete, but a legal challenge has stopped work on the final two two miles in Iowa. Pictured is a different portion of the line when it was still being built. Credit: American Transmission Co.

A Power Line Debate Pits Environmental Allies Against Each Other in the Upper Midwest

By Dan Gearino

Abigail Barten (right), trail coordinator, pours and filters raw maple syrup into a tank for collection on March 16, 2023, at Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Credit: Geoff Stellfox/The Gazette

Midwest Maple Syrup Producers Adapt to Record Warm Winter, Uncertainty as Climate Changes

By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch and Brittney J. Miller, The Gazette/Wisconsin Watch

A fast-moving wildfire burned more than 1,000 acres this month near Wendell, Minnesota, about 150 miles northwest of the Twin Cities. Much of the Midwest has been under red flag warnings this spring following a record hot and dry winter that officials say has dramatically increased the threat of wildfires in the region. Credit: Courtesy of Fergus Falls Fire Department

From Michigan to Nebraska, Midwest States Face an Early Wildfire Season

By Kristoffer Tigue

The Kakagon and Bad River Sloughs located on the Bad River Reservation. Credit: Richard Schultz/Courtesy of 50 Eggs Films

Enbridge Wants Line 5 Shutdown Order Overturned on Tribal Land in Northern Wisconsin

By Phil McKenna, Noel Lyn Smith

Hotel Verdant in downtown Racine, Wisconsin. Credit: Hotel Verdant/Charlestowne Hotels

A Boutique Hotel Helps Explain the Benefits of Businesses and Government Teaming Up to Conserve Energy

By Dan Gearino

Strong storms often lead to bluff erosion on the shores of Lake Superior. Credit: Juli Beth Hinds

U.S. Housing Crisis Thwarts Recruitment for Nature-Based Infrastructure Projects

By Lydia Larsen

Volunteers on a park bench.

Milwaukee Residents Fear More Flooding Due to Planned I-94 Expansion  

By Jonah Chester, WPR/Wisconsin Watch

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

Road Salts Wash Into Mississippi River, Damaging Ecosystems and Pipes

By Madeline Heim, 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

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