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A northwestern Wisconsin company has applied for a 60-year permit to expand its sand mine.
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Read More »DNR: Wisconsin frack-sand-sludge spill nontoxic
Wisconsin officials say early tests have found no harmful chemicals after a spill near a frack sand mine sent millions of gallons of sludge into waterways.
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Read More »Court to hear challenge of Winona County’s sand-mining ban
Winona County, Minnesota's only county to ban the mining of silica sand for use by the oil and gas industry in hydraulic fracturing, goes to court on Thursday to defend the ban.
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Read More »Judge invalidates western Wisconsin sand mine permits
Wisconsin environmental regulators improperly gave a company in Georgia permission last year to destroy wetlands to make way for a sand-processing plant, a judge ruled on Friday.
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Read More »Republican senators say bill to benefit mining company dead (UPDATE)
Two influential Republican senators on Wednesday were pronouncing dead a proposal the Assembly passed quickly to allow a Georgia mining company to destroy wetlands containing rare hardwoods in western Wisconsin.
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Read More »Senate adjourns without taking up frac-sand exemptions
It looks as if legislation that would clear the way for a $70 million frac-sand processing plant in western Wisconsin is dead.
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Read More »Wisconsin frack industry recovers, faces new competition (UPDATE)
A surge in domestic crude-oil production has helped Wisconsin's frack sand industry overcome a slump that idled mines two years ago, but the industry now faces new competition.
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Read More »Wetlands bill hits snag in state Senate
The fight over a proposed $70 million sand-processing center in western Wisconsin was to go on Wednesday before a state Senate committee, which was scheduled to hear public comments on a bill the Assembly has amended to include environmental exemptions for the project.
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Read More »Former DNR specialists question decision on rare wetlands
Former employees of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are among those questioning the agency's decision to allow a Georgia company to fill in rare wetlands for a frack-sand-processing operation.
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Read More »Report: Sand production rebounding across state
New data from the U.S. Geological Survey show the country's production of industrial sand increased more than 36 percent in 2017 as Wisconsin again led the nation.
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