http://dailyreporter.com Wisconsin's Construction Authority Fri, 24 May 2013 20:12:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dailyreporter.com/2013/04/23/utilities-settle-with-epa-over-air-pollution/ http://dailyreporter.com/2013/04/23/utilities-settle-with-epa-over-air-pollution/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:39:12 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=97706 Wisconsin utilities have agreed to spend more than $1 billion to clean up aging coal-fired power plants under a settlement with federal regulators announced Monday.]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2013/04/23/utilities-settle-with-epa-over-air-pollution/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2013/01/04/wps-agrees-to-settle-clean-air-act-violations/ http://dailyreporter.com/2013/01/04/wps-agrees-to-settle-clean-air-act-violations/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:20:09 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=93731 The U.S. Department of Justice says the Wisconsin Public Service Corp. has agreed to pay a $1.2 million civil penalty and make substantial investments in pollution controls in order to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act.]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2013/01/04/wps-agrees-to-settle-clean-air-act-violations/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2012/07/20/appeals-court-rejects-challenge-to-clean-air-rule/ http://dailyreporter.com/2012/07/20/appeals-court-rejects-challenge-to-clean-air-rule/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:23:03 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=87772 A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a tough new clean air requirement limiting sulfur dioxide emissions.]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2012/07/20/appeals-court-rejects-challenge-to-clean-air-rule/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2012/03/29/companies-to-pay-for-violations-at-wis-plant/ http://dailyreporter.com/2012/03/29/companies-to-pay-for-violations-at-wis-plant/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:47:29 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=83303 Two companies have agreed to pay a $280,000 civil penalty and spend $500,000 on an environmental project to resolve alleged air violations at a Wisconsin plant.]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2012/03/29/companies-to-pay-for-violations-at-wis-plant/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2011/09/02/obama-halts-controversial-epa-regulation/ http://dailyreporter.com/2011/09/02/obama-halts-controversial-epa-regulation/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:02:22 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=73755 By DINA CAPPIELLO and 
JULIE PACE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday scrapped his administration’s controversial plans to tighten smog rules, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders. Obama overruled the Environmental Protection Agency — and the unanimous opinion of its independent panel of scientific advisers — [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2011/09/02/obama-halts-controversial-epa-regulation/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2011/06/20/high-court-blocks-states-climate-change-lawsuit/ http://dailyreporter.com/2011/06/20/high-court-blocks-states-climate-change-lawsuit/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:35:40 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=70542 By 
MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court blocked a federal lawsuit Monday by states and conservation groups trying to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The court said that the authority to seek reductions in emissions rests with the Environmental Protection Agency, not the courts. The ruling was [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2011/06/20/high-court-blocks-states-climate-change-lawsuit/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2011/04/19/us-supreme-court-casts-doubt-on-global-warming-suit/ http://dailyreporter.com/2011/04/19/us-supreme-court-casts-doubt-on-global-warming-suit/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:55:23 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=68022 By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Washington (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared deeply skeptical Tuesday about allowing states to sue electric utilities to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Both conservative and liberal justices questioned whether a federal judge could deal with the complex issue of global warming, a topic they suggested [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2011/04/19/us-supreme-court-casts-doubt-on-global-warming-suit/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2010/12/03/epa-to-investigate-15-wis-power-plants/ http://dailyreporter.com/2010/12/03/epa-to-investigate-15-wis-power-plants/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:00:13 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=61863 By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notified the state of Wisconsin this week that it was starting an investigation into 15 publically owned power plants to determine if they were violating clean air laws. The EPA sent a letter to the state Department of Administration asking for [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2010/12/03/epa-to-investigate-15-wis-power-plants/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2010/07/01/epa-overturns-texas-permit-program/ http://dailyreporter.com/2010/07/01/epa-overturns-texas-permit-program/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:45:26 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=55572 Ramit Plushnick-Masti AP Writer Houston — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has officially overturned a 16-year-old Texas air permitting program EPA officials say violates the Clean Air Act, leaving some of the country’s largest refineries in limbo. The move comes after years of backdoor bickering, negotiations and public arguments between the EPA and Texas. The [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2010/07/01/epa-overturns-texas-permit-program/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2010/06/09/bid-to-block-new-epa-rules-faces-veto/ http://dailyreporter.com/2010/06/09/bid-to-block-new-epa-rules-faces-veto/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:05:05 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=54699 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 [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2010/06/09/bid-to-block-new-epa-rules-faces-veto/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2010/05/26/epa-texas-permit-violates-clean-air-act/ http://dailyreporter.com/2010/05/26/epa-texas-permit-violates-clean-air-act/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 15:21:09 +0000 Associated Press http://dailyreporter.com/?p=54286 Ramit Plushnick-Masti AP Writer Houston — The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to end a long-running dispute with Texas over how the state regulates emissions, including cancer-causing toxins such as benzene and butadiene, from dozens of refineries that produce a third of the nation’s gasoline and billions of dollars of petrochemicals. In a step it [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2010/05/26/epa-texas-permit-violates-clean-air-act/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2010/02/17/sierra-club-lawsuit-threatens-university-projects/ http://dailyreporter.com/2010/02/17/sierra-club-lawsuit-threatens-university-projects/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:42:56 +0000 http://dailyreporter.com/?p=39979 By Paul Snyder A Sierra Club lawsuit seeking the results of a state review of four campus power plants could be the beginning of a massive drain on the budgets of university building projects. The Sierra Club wants to know whether projects completed since 1995 at University of Wisconsin System power plants on the campuses [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2010/02/17/sierra-club-lawsuit-threatens-university-projects/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2010/02/16/sierra-club-sues-dnr-over-power-plant-records/ http://dailyreporter.com/2010/02/16/sierra-club-sues-dnr-over-power-plant-records/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:14:03 +0000 Joe Yovino http://dailyreporter.com/?p=39874 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Sierra Club is asking a judge to force the Department of Natural Resources to release public records related to alleged Clean Air Act violations at state-run power plants. In a lawsuit filed Monday, the environmental group alleges the DNR is violating the state’s open records law by failing to release [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2010/02/16/sierra-club-sues-dnr-over-power-plant-records/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2009/12/07/epa-greenhouse-gases-endanger-human-health-157-pm-12709/ http://dailyreporter.com/2009/12/07/epa-greenhouse-gases-endanger-human-health-157-pm-12709/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:56:25 +0000 http://dailyreporter.com/?p=36413 By DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment. The announcement came as the Obama administration looked to boost its arguments at an international climate conference [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2009/12/07/epa-greenhouse-gases-endanger-human-health-157-pm-12709/feed/ 1 http://dailyreporter.com/2009/11/18/epa-to-hold-hearing-on-greenhouse-gas-emissions-112-pm-111809/ http://dailyreporter.com/2009/11/18/epa-to-hold-hearing-on-greenhouse-gas-emissions-112-pm-111809/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:19:03 +0000 http://dailyreporter.com/?p=35446 CHICAGO – The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public hearing on the proposed greenhouse gas emissions thresholds as they apply to new or existing industrial facilities. The program would cover almost 70 percent of nation’s total GHG emissions from stationary sources. The nation’s largest facilities – including power plants, refineries and cement production facilities [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2009/11/18/epa-to-hold-hearing-on-greenhouse-gas-emissions-112-pm-111809/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2009/10/14/texas-industries-worry-about-epa-crackdown/ http://dailyreporter.com/2009/10/14/texas-industries-worry-about-epa-crackdown/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:22:05 +0000 Rick Benedict http://dailyreporter.com/?p=33571 John McFarland AP Writer Dallas (AP) — For 15 years, environmentalists have complained that state regulations have allowed the powerful oil and chemical industries to skirt Clean Air Act standards in Texas, the nation’s foremost producer of industrial air pollution. But the Environmental Protection Agency last month scrapped several aspects of the state’s air-pollution permitting [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2009/10/14/texas-industries-worry-about-epa-crackdown/feed/ 2 http://dailyreporter.com/2009/08/26/associated-general-contractors-of-america-fuming-about-exhaust-rules/ http://dailyreporter.com/2009/08/26/associated-general-contractors-of-america-fuming-about-exhaust-rules/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:22:25 +0000 Rick Benedict http://dailyreporter.com/?p=6188 Justin Carinci Dolan Media Newswires Portland, OR — New diesel emissions rules could hit California contractors starting next year, and a national contractors group wants to stop those rules from sweeping the whole country. The rules would limit exhaust from off-road vehicles — including construction equipment — already in use, not just new vehicles. That [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2009/08/26/associated-general-contractors-of-america-fuming-about-exhaust-rules/feed/ 0 http://dailyreporter.com/2009/08/25/study-4-state-power-projects-ignored-clean-air-act/ http://dailyreporter.com/2009/08/25/study-4-state-power-projects-ignored-clean-air-act/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:49:04 +0000 Rick Benedict http://dailyreporter.com/?p=6157 Ryan J. Foley AP Writer Madison — Four construction projects at state-run power plants dating to 1995 violated the Clean Air Act by increasing pollution without installing required controls, according to a state report. A 2007 lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club raised questions about whether state officials were following the act’s requirements to obtain [...]]]> http://dailyreporter.com/2009/08/25/study-4-state-power-projects-ignored-clean-air-act/feed/ 1