Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: ABC, AGC, Associated Builders and Contractors, Associated General Contractors, bill, Boetcher, Clean Energy Jobs Act, Helios USA, IBEW, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Wisconsin, Manley, Ostrenga, PSC, Public Service Commission, renewable energy, solar, Todd Stuart, wind, WMC
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By Sean Ryan
A manufacturer and union predict more construction work from a state renewable energy bill, while business groups argue the measure would drive jobs out of Wisconsin.
The bill would support energy-conservation projects by increasing the amount the state charges ratepayers. It also would set a 2025 deadline for 25 percent of state electricity to [...]
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: bridge, National Park Service, Sierra Club, St. Croix River, Stillwater Lift Bridge
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge in Minneapolis has blocked construction of a bridge over the St. Croix River near Stillwater.
Chief Judge Michael Davis found the National Park Service’s approval of the $668 million bridge violated federal law. Davis said the agency ignored its 1996 position that a massive bridge south of Stillwater would have [...]
Published: March 11, 2010
Tags: Ajack Black, SealMaster Milwaukee, Victoria Inc.
Victoria Inc., an asphalt coating company, will pay the state $5,000 to settle a water-pollution lawsuit stemming from a 2007 accident.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice on Tuesday sued the Menomonee Falls-based company, which does business under the brand name SealMaster Milwaukee. A Waukesha County Circuit Court approved a settlement on Thursday.
The state sued Victoria due [...]
Published: March 11, 2010
Tags: Bies, builder, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Hagen, landowner, Pat Stevens, permit, Rodrian, Slottke, survey, The Sigma Group, wetlands, Wisconsin Builders Association, Wisconsin Department of Justice
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By Paul Snyder
Disputes between the state and builders over construction projects near wetlands have prompted a lawmaker’s attempt to force better communication between the sides.
State Rep. Garey Bies, R-Sister Bay, has introduced a bill requiring the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources provide information about wetlands to landowners, builders and local governments that issue building permits. [...]
Published: March 11, 2010
Tags: Brunet Island State Park, Chippewa Moraine, Cylon State Wildlife, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, natural areas, St. Croix Islands
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin environmental officials want to designate six new state natural areas.
State-designated natural areas are zones on state land devoted to scientific research and preservation. According to the Department of Natural Resources, the designation doesn’t affect any existing uses or recreational access.
The new areas would include two zones within the St. Croix [...]
Published: March 10, 2010
Tags: Carbon-Free, Christofferson, Electric Power Research Institute, Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Makhijani, Mitch Singer, Nuclear Energy Institute, Nuclear-Free Wisconsin Coalition, Soletski
By Paul Snyder
A coalition opposed to nuclear development wants to amend the state’s global warming bill to strengthen security for spent fuel.
The amendment proposal is making little progress.
“I’m not ready to make that change,” said state Rep. Jim Soletski, D-Green Bay, one of four lawmakers working on a bill based on the recommendations of the [...]
Published: March 10, 2010
Tags: cap-and-trade, carbon controls, climate and energy bill, global warming, greenhouse gases, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, Obama, offshore drilling
By Matthew Daly
AP Writer
Washington — President Barack Obama has made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year.
Fourteen senators from both parties — including several who remain undecided on the climate bill — met for more than an hour Tuesday [...]
Published: March 8, 2010
Tags: Agnew, Bruce Block, butterfly, engineering campus, Friends of the Monarch Trail, habitat, Milwaukee County Grounds, preservation, research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UWM Real Estate Foundation Inc., Wauwatosa
By Sean Ryan
A four-month redesign of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee engineering campus in Wauwatosa has delayed the project but calmed environmental opposition.
The most vocal opponents of the campus plan have been environmentalists trying to protect a butterfly habitat on the Milwaukee County Grounds, which is where the Innovation Park project would be built. But Barb [...]
Published: March 8, 2010
Tags: Gunderson, water, Wells
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow anyone to challenge high-capacity wells.
Under the Democratic-authored measure, anyone could file a petition for review of a high-capacity well if he or she can provide information showing the well is “reasonably probable” to harm surface waters.
Rep. Scott Gunderson, a Waterford Republican, said [...]
Published: March 8, 2010
Tags: Alabama, Atlanta, Colorado School of Mines, federal reservoirs, Florida, Georgia, Hanna, Lake Lanier, Lake Winnebago, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, water use
By Ben Evans
AP Writer
Washington — Sixty years ago, the late Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield resisted helping to pay for Lake Lanier, a new federal reservoir being built north of town.
Atlanta had plenty of water, he wrote Congress. Thanks, but no thanks.
Those words came back to haunt Atlanta last year. A federal judge ruled that the [...]
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