Published: March 16, 2010
Tags: earthquake, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, New Madrid Seismic Zone, NMSZ
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin will join a massive Midwestern earthquake readiness drill next year.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been working with states in the New Madrid Seismic Zone on a earthquake response plan. The zone runs from west of Memphis, Tenn., into southern Illinois.
According to FEMA, a massive earthquake in the zone could [...]
Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: biomass, Domtar Corp., Manthey, paper mill, Poyry LLC, PSC, Public Service Commission, The Boldt Co., We Energies
By Paul Snyder
We Energies on Monday submitted its application to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin for a $255 million biomass plant in Rothschild.
We Energies spokesman Brian Manthey said the project, which will be built on the same site as Domtar Corp.’s operating paper mill, will include new construction, reuse some of the paper manufacturer’s [...]
Published: March 10, 2010
Tags: Dave Ross, fiber-optic, Google, Madison Common Council, Mark Clear, Nancy Olson, network, telecommunications, YouTube
Comments: 2
By Sean Ryan
At least three Wisconsin cities are looking for the best way to impress Google as they compete for the company’s planned fiber-optic network.
Google, an information-technology company based in Mountainview, Calif., plans to build a fiber-optic network to offer high-speed Internet service, and is accepting applications from communities nationwide until March 26.
Milwaukee, Madison and [...]
Published: March 10, 2010
Tags: fiber-optic, Google, Internet, Madison
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Madison is among cities around the country trying to persuade Google to test its new fiber-optic network which is expected to be more than 100 times faster than current Internet connections.
According to Madison officials, the Google Fiber network could bring more than 1,000 jobs and $97 million in infrastructure investment to [...]
Published: March 8, 2010
Tags: butterfly habitat, campus, Dennik, Innovation Park, Jim Schmitt, Lawrence Kean, McCulloch, Regional Medical Center, Watertown Plank Road, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT, Zoo Interchange
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
The first public hearing on the Innovation Park plan showed the contrast between big-picture economic development and concerns about how development affects people’s daily lives.
“We have to make sure that everybody gets a piece of the pie,” said Jim Schmitt, Milwaukee County supervisor, “that everybody has their say.”
Supporters of the proposed $250 million [...]
Published: February 24, 2010
Tags: clean energy bill, Doyle, energy, jobs, nuclear, renewable energy, renewable sources, solar
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle says he’s open to approving a scaled-back clean energy bill as long as a key provision setting new renewable energy standards remains in tact.
Doyle said the crux of the sweeping measure being debated in the Legislature would require 25 percent of Wisconsin’s energy to come from renewable sources [...]
Published: February 20, 2010
Tags: Asian carp, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Great Lakes, Obama
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Obama administration is preparing to release a 5-year blueprint for fighting invasive species and otherwise improving the Great Lakes environment.
Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has scheduled a news conference for Sunday morning in Washington to announce the plan.
President Barack Obama has pledged to spend $5 billion [...]
Published: February 18, 2010
Tags: cement, cement plant, fly ash, Giles Engineering Associates, Gresser, Lisowski, Miglautsch, Milwaukee, Reco Cement Products
By Sean Ryan
Two Milwaukeeans have a recipe and a dream, but they need $7 million to mass produce the new cement they say could tap a worldwide market.
David Lisowski and John Miglautsch have patented a new formula for fly-ash cement. Fly ash is a byproduct of coal burned in power plants and has been used [...]
Published: February 17, 2010
Tags: Asian carp, Great Lakes
CICERO, Ill. (AP) — Wildlife officials already have DNA evidence that suggests the destructive Asian carp has made it past Chicago-area electric fish barriers.
What they don’t have is an actual fish.
If the weather allows, they’ll start searching Wednesday for the dreaded species.
Crews will focus on areas where warm water from industrial operations enters the waterways. [...]
Published: February 13, 2010
Tags: alternative energy, energy, global warming, NRC, nuclear, nuclear plants, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Obama, power, power plant, The Southern Co.
By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s planned loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the United States in almost three decades is part of a broad shift in energy strategy to lessen dependence on foreign oil and reduce the use of other fossil fuels blamed for global warming.
President [...]
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