Published: August 12, 2010
Tags: agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Forest Service, National Alliance of Forest Owners, Nature Conservancy, Plum Creek Timber Co., private forests, Trust for Public Land, Vilsack
By Jeff Barnard
AP Environmental Writer
Grants Pass, Ore. — Housing development on privately owned forest land needs to be added to the list of threats to the nation’s forests, according to a U.S. Forest Service report.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a teleconference from Washington, D.C., that he wants talks held by the Obama administration with [...]
Published: August 6, 2010
Tags: American Sewer, Department of Natural Resources, DRN, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, local preference, Milwaukee, MJ Construction, Schueller, Scott Maly, Tomasini, United Sewer & Water, Wanta, Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association, WUCA
By Marie Rohde
The Wisconsin Underground Contractors Association will ask Congress to ban bid preferences by amending the Clean Water Act, the association’s top official says.
Richard Wanta, WUCA’s executive director, said the Milwaukee city ordinance has cost taxpayers an additional $83,087.
“That would fix a lot of potholes or buy some new squad cars,” Wanta said Friday.
Wanta’s [...]
Published: August 4, 2010
Tags: Air Quality Index, Clean Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Menomonee Valley, Sierra Club, Valley Power Plant
By Joe Yovino
Two environmental groups Wednesday sued the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources over an air permit for Milwaukee’s Valley Power Plant in the Menomonee Valley.
The Sierra Club, on behalf of its Madison-based John Muir Chapter, and Clean Wisconsin Inc., Madison, are asking the court to compel the DNR to issue an air permit for [...]
Published: July 20, 2010
Tags: energy efficiency, Energy Star, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Kohl's, U.S. Department of Energy
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A southeastern Wisconsin company is being honored for its energy efficiency.
According to Kohl’s Department Stores, its Menomonee Falls store is its 500th location to earn the Energy Star label from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy.
Commercial buildings that earn the label rate in the top 25 [...]
Published: July 13, 2010
Tags: Door County, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Manitowoc County, smog
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has approved requests from Wisconsin to re-designate Manitowoc and Door counties as reaching acceptable levels of smog.
The EPA reviewed three years of outdoor air monitoring data for 2006, 2007 and 2008 as part of the analysis to determine whether the areas meet the standard. Complete quality assured monitoring [...]
Published: July 12, 2010
Tags: builder, clause, Degnan Design Builders, Environmental Protection Agency, lawsuit, lead paint, lead renovation, National Association of Home Builders, opt out, regulations, remodel, rules
By Scott Carlson
Special to The Daily Reporter
Wisconsin home remodelers and builders are watching closely a national lawsuit over federal lead paint regulations.
The outcome of the battle between the National Association of Home Builders and the Environmental Protection Agency could spur changes in Wisconsin’s lead paint rules.
The NAHB reported it is suing the EPA for removing [...]
Published: June 23, 2010
Tags: Clean Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Legislature, Pat Stevens, phosphorus, rules, runoff, Scott Manley, wastewater treatment, Wisconsin Builders Association, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
By Sean Ryan
Builders and manufacturers have only one more chance to convince state policymakers that new runoff and phosphorus rules will cost too much money.
The two rules, drafted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, cleared the state Natural Resources Board on Wednesday, meaning business associations trying to block or revise the rules will have [...]
Published: June 22, 2010
Tags: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, lead paint, lead-safe practices, National Association of Home Builders, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Comments: 2
By Matthew Daly
AP Writer
Washington (AP) — Home improvement contractors will have more time to meet new federal requirements for dealing with lead paint.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will delay until Oct. 1 enforcement of a rule requiring contractors to take additional precautions when renovating houses where children could be exposed to lead dust from old [...]
Published: June 19, 2010
Tags: Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Matt Frank, Natural Resources Board, phosphorus, wastewater, Wisconsin Builders Association
By TODD RICHMOND
Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin farmers would face phosphorus run-off limits for the first time and wastewater treatment plants would have to follow tighter discharge standards on the oxygen-depleting nutrient under a sweeping rules package state environmental officials are poised to adopt.
The rules represent more than a decade’s worth of work [...]
Published: June 9, 2010
Tags: Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Obama, Small Business Environmental Conference, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
By Jim Abrams
AP Writer
Washington (AP) — White House officials have raised the stakes on the Senate’s first major climate change vote of the year, threatening to veto a Republican-led effort to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from carrying out regulations controlling greenhouse gases.
White House officials, citing the environmental damage caused by the Gulf of Mexico [...]
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