The chairman of the Department of Natural Resources policy board said Thursday he did nothing wrong when he consulted with a Republican congressman and an aide to the GOP state Senate leader about refusing to step down from his position.

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A grassroots citizen group is pushing back against a Duluth company’s proposal to bottle and sell water from a well near Lake Superior.

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The leader of the state Department of Natural Resources policy board consulted with Republicans on his decision to stay on the panel after his term expired, emails show.

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Lawmakers aired out a proposal on Wednesday to help Green Bay move coal piles from a riverfront site where they've sat for more than a century and make way for new development.

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More groups are calling on Wisconsin's attorney general to remove the head of the state's Natural Resources Board before its August meeting.

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Wisconsin's former top sturgeon biologist has resigned and has been fined for lying to investigators looking into the illegal processing of sturgeon eggs into caviar.

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Wisconsin Democrats are demanding Republican lawmakers confirm Gov. Tony Evers' choice to replace the GOP-appointed head of the Department of Natural Resources board in a battle that could shape how the agency approaches a host of pressing issues including this fall's wolf hunt to pollution limits.

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A pair of Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions on Thursday promises to broaden the powers of state agencies by finding that regulators can both impose operating conditions on factory farms and take the likely environmental effects of high-capacity wells into account in their decision-making.

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Opponents of Enbridge Energy's Line 3 oil pipeline project are worried about the potential impact of the company's plan to temporarily pump as much as 10 times more groundwater out of the construction area than once planned.

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Devil's Lake State Park, Wisconsin's most-visited park, is soon to be getting larger.

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