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Milwaukee redevelopment officials got the OK to apply for a $2 million grant to possibly excavate a site in the city’s northwest side.
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Read More »Milwaukee redevelopment authority gives OK to pursue $2 million EPA brownfields cleanup grant
Wisconsin to get $1.4M in EPA air monitoring grants 
Wisconsin is one of 37 states that will receive a total of $53.4 million in air monitoring grants from the federal government with a focus on underserved communities disproportionately affected by pollution.
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Read More »EPA waives fuel rule in 4 states after Indiana refinery fire
The Environmental Protection Agency temporarily lifted a federal rule for fuel sales in four states in response to a fire last week at an Indiana oil refinery that could affect prices and supply.
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Read More »EPA sets grants to restore ‘brownfields’ at blighted sites
The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday more than $66 million in grants will go to 151 places throughout the U.S> to assess and clean up contaminated or abandoned "brownfields'' — industrial and commercial properties that contain a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant. An estimated 450,000 brownfields, including abandoned industrial facilities, waste disposal sites and former gas stations, plague cities, towns and rural areas throughout the country.
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Read More »Menominee tribe loses appeal over Back Forty mine permit
Despite acknowledging that federal agencies had given the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin a “runaround”, a federal appeals court ruled against the tribe this week in a lawsuit over a permit for the Back Forty mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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Read More »Families take step toward suing EPA for toxic paint stripper
The mothers of two men killed by a toxic paint stripper have taken a first step toward suing the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to take quick action to remove the product from the market.
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Read More »Trump’s $4.4 trillion budget moves deficit sharply higher
President Donald Trump released a $4.4 trillion budget for next year that heralds an era of $1 trillion-plus federal deficits and — unlike the plan he released last year — never comes close to promising a balanced ledger even after 10 years.
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Read More »EPA says Superfund Task Force left behind little paper trail
The Environmental Protection Agency says an internal task force appointed to revamp how the country's most polluted sites are cleaned up generated no record of its deliberations.
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Read More »Wisconsin GOP tells committee to end air-pollution rules
Republican lawmakers tried to persuade a legislative committee on Tuesday to approve a bill that would relax Wisconsin's air-pollution regulations, saying the rules burden businesses and the state regulates hundreds of pollutants that the federal government ignores.
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Read More »Court: EPA can’t revoke ozone requirements for highway projects
In a victory for environmental groups, a federal appeals court rejected two Environmental Protection Agency regulations that loosened requirements for achieving compliance with more protective ozone standards.
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