The potential for phosphorus pollution has residents downstream nervous to the point of filing a formal petition with the state's Department of Natural Resources.
A top political appointee at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources chose to handle a complaint against a waste hauler internally instead of referring the case to the state Department of Justice for prosecution, DNR records show.
A federal trial in Milwaukee has several paper companies arguing over which firms are responsible for cleaning up the Fox River contaminated decades ago by discharges from the papermaking process.
A civil environmental enforcement action against Karl Excavating Inc., Manitowoc, arising from solid waste violations has been resolved, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced Monday. During a May 2010 inspection, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources found about 10 ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker has created a commission he hopes will find $300 million a year in government waste. Walker signed an executive order on Monday, his first day in office, creating the commission. He made the ...
Alliance Federated Energy LLC, Milwaukee, on Monday announced the development of Project Apollo, a 25-megawatt renewable energy project to be located in Milwaukee. Project Apollo plans to use Westinghouse Plasma Corp.’s plasma gasification technology to process municipal and industrial wastes ...
By Rick Callahan AP Writer Indianapolis — Federal officials are encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil even as the officials consider regulating coal wastes for the first ...
By Paul Snyder State lawmakers preparing global warming legislation are feeling the fallout from a clean energy coalition’s opposition to a nuclear power plant bill. State Rep. Jim Soletski, D-Green Bay, is one of four lawmakers developing the global warming ...