Electric cars spark review of gas tax

Published: September 9, 2011
Tags: charging stations, Madison Gas and Electric, Pommer

The Madison Gas and Electric utility serving the Madison area has established eight charging stations at which people can plug in their electric cars.

Lawmakers grumble over digester costs 

Published: November 18, 2010
Tags: biogas, Clear Horizons, Dane County, Dave Merritt, digester, Kanavas, Karl Crave, Madison Gas and Electric, manure digester, phosphorus, Plale, Wisconsin Building Commission

By James Briggs Dane County is about to get its second manure digester, a $12.5 million treatment center that will be built near Middleton and completed in 2011. It will be a replica — in size and cost — of a digester nearing completion outside Waunakee. It also will be the last time the state [...]

Madison developer opts for Energy Star over LEED 

Published: November 9, 2010
Tags: City Row Apartments, Energy Star, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Focus on Energy, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, LEED, Madison, Madison Gas and Electric, Stone House Development, U.S. Green Building Council, USGBC

By James Briggs A Madison apartment complex that opened this fall has been labeled one of the nation’s most energy-efficient residential buildings. But the label is from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency instead of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. City Row Apartments, an 83-unit complex in downtown Madison [...]

News from around Wisconsin (9:46 p.m. 1/17/10)

Stoughton hospital up and running after evacuation STOUGHTON, Wis. (AP) — Stoughton Hospital evacuated 18 patients Sunday after receiving numerous bomb threats over the last 24 hours. The first threat came in about 8 p.m. Saturday, but Stoughton police and Dane County sheriff’s officials found nothing. Hospital officials say they received more threats by phone [...]

News Briefs

Published: August 6, 2009
Tags: Chicago, expansion, Hoan Bridge, Madison Gas and Electric, Milwaukee County, Minnesota, remediation, Smoky Canyon Mine, Stetsonville, stimulus, Surface Transportation Board, United Airlines, United Transportation Union, wind farm

Minnesota reports 2,130 transportation jobs created from road stimulus so far St. Paul, MN (AP) — Eager to show the federal stimulus package is working, Minnesota transportation leaders said Wednesday the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has supported 2,130 direct road construction jobs in the state so far. The figure puts the state about a [...]