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Obama halts controversial EPA regulation
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 […]
High court blocks states’ climate change lawsuit (UPDATE)
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 […]
US Supreme Court casts doubt on global warming suit
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 […]
EPA to investigate 15 Wis. power plants
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 […]
EPA overturns Texas permit program
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 […]
Bid to block new EPA rules faces veto
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 […]
EPA: Texas permit violates Clean Air Act
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 […]
Sierra Club lawsuit threatens university projects
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 […]
Sierra Club sues DNR over power plant records
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 […]
EPA: Greenhouse gases endanger human health (1:57 p.m. 12/7/09)
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 […]
EPA to hold hearing on greenhouse gas emissions (1:21 p.m. 11/18/09)
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 […]
Texas industries worry about EPA crackdown
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 […]
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- Contractor teaches Milwaukee middle school students about construction careers
- Construction begins on Milwaukee’s 373-unit 100 East apartment conversion
- Wisconsin worker deaths slightly decline but remain high
- After neighbor concerns, Milwaukee alderwoman delays apartments review
- Dane County slaps solar company execs with theft by contractor charges
- Priciest option for Wauwatosa city hall and library project is $107M
- Residents TID petition seeks more oversight on public spending
- TOP BIDDERS: The biggest recent winning bids from around Wisconsin | May 19
- Judge orders partial pause on Line 5 construction in northern Wisconsin
- Backlash continues against Shorewood affordable housing proposal
- Worker hospitalized after 30-foot fall at Madison construction site
- Wisconsin announces $248M for essential projects statewide
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)