A $28 million project in northwestern Wisconsin will turn cheese production waste into power, heat and fertilizer.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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