A Milwaukee panel voted unanimously Tuesday to designate three city-owned properties as blighted.

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An official with the state Department of Natural Resources says the agency is trying to be more business-friendly even as it works to protect the environment.

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The federal government is giving the city of Wausau $400,000 in grants to help clean up its riverfront.

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The city of Manitowoc has received a $1 million grant from the federal government to clean up properties with environmental contamination.

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Contamination at brownfields usually doesn’t rise to the level of Superfund sites, so they don’t get Superfund-level attention. Still, they could harm people and the environment, reduce tax revenue, keep communities from developing and attract vandals and dumping.

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Madison will get help from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in cleaning up some of its contaminated properties.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Six Wisconsin communities, as well as Marinette County, will receive a total of $3.6 million in Environmental Protection Agency grants to clean up contaminated properties. Milwaukee will receive $600,000 for three sites, two at Century City — ...

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By Paul Snyder Madison can’t loan money for brownfield cleanup projects, so city leaders want to try giving the money away. But strings will be attached, including a financing match requirement from developers and a guarantee of one full-time job ...

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Paul Snyder [email protected] The state Legislature’s budget conference committee has a long to-do list before striking a compromise between the Senate and Assembly versions of the spending package. The following list breaks down, according to budget topics, construction-related items that ...

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