Category: wisconsin
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Wisconsin Assembly votes to lift barrier to new nukes
“No nukes now. No nukes probably forever,” says environmental activist Kevin Moore. Moore, in the late 1980s, went to jail as a protester seeking to block the licensing of nuclear power plants. He’s remained active since. And, like many no-nuke demonstrators who committed to the cause in the late 1970s and 1980s, he’s baffled by…
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Milwaukee surfers making waves with sport, advocacy
Eric Gietzen grew up in Shorewood, close to Lake Michigan, seeing the crashing waves and listening to the lore about famous shipwrecks. “When I woke up in the morning, if there would be big waves, I could hear them,” he recalls. Ryan Bigelow also grew up in the Milwaukee area. Neither of them imagined that…
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Big gulp: GOP advances water privatization
“Aqua America” sounds like a water park on the shore of a great lake. Rather, Aqua America is the second-largest publicly traded water utility company in the United States, and some day the company — or Veolia or Suez — could take control of municipal water systems in Wisconsin. Republican lawmakers fast-tracked AB 554/SB 432,…
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Wisconsin Republicans declare open season against environment
Republicans took target practice in early January after declaring open season on Wisconsin’s environmental resources. The new year began with a bang, bang in the Capitol, where in just two days Republicans presided over a series of hearings on bills aimed at rolling back protections for air, land and water and at the same time…