ENVIRONMENT
Amid a New Study, Questions Surround the Ongoing Mining Issue in Glenwood City
[first published on WIvoices.org] A new and comprehensive study on frac sand mining was released Wednsesday featuring input from a local man.Tom Quinn is the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Far...
Posted on 5/17/13 at 11:21 PM
Lottery Scratch-offs Part 2: Stating the Obvious
Part 1 was aboutthe interesting psychology that gambling brings out in people. We also looked at those$30 scratch-offs and the mixed feelings that come with buying those things. But while people have...
Posted on 9/12/12 at 10:52 AM
Legislative notebook: Dayton rejects GOP school payment plan
By Danielle Nordine and Don Davis Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a Republican plan to take money out of the state reserve fund to repay money owed Minnesota school districts. The Democratic governor on Thu...
Posted on 4/5/12 at 11:57 PM
EPA: No ban on lead hunting ammunition
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency denied a petition by five environmental groups to ban lead in hunting ammunition. Here's a link to a story on the topic....
Posted on 8/30/10 at 1:45 PM
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Recovery Act Projects for Forest Road Maintenance and Associated Watershed and Ecosystem Restoration
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for roads maintenance and decommissioning and associat...
Posted on 6/8/09 at 4:23 AM
Letter: She can’t see any upside to introduction of sand mining to area
TO THE EDITOR: I am responding to a letter from the plant manager of Wisconsin Industrial Sand Company.By Kathleen M. Breen, Prescott , February 27, 2013
Sen. Schmit touts study of mining concerns
Minnesota News-- Minnesota officials would study the environmental impact of silica sand mining and provide technical assistance to local governments dealing with sand mining issues under a bill to be introduced Monday in the state Senate.
February 24, 2013
Minnesota delegation members introduce legislation to fight Asian carp
Minnesota News-- Minnesota members of Congress introduced legislation to battle Asian carp.
By Don Davis , February 18, 2013
Western Wisconsin News Roundup: State panel denies wind farm project in Town of Forest
Western Wisconsin News-- A company that wants to create a wind energy farm in far western Wisconsin says it will keep trying, after the State Public Service Commission said no to its project yesterday.
February 15, 2013
Letter: Shell undermines climate, guts clean energy legislation, he says
TO THE EDITOR: The Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company, the most carbon-intensive oil company in the world, will contribute more to global warming than any other oil company.By Ray Anderson, River Falls , February 13, 2013
Letter: WISC mines are committed to exceeding all regulations, manager says
TO THE EDITOR: This is in response to the Feb. 6 letter about sand mining in the Town of Oak Grove.By Jeff Himes, Plant Manager, Wisconsin Industrial Sand Company, Hager City, Bay City , February 13, 2013
Hearing held on new mine in Ashland
Western Wisconsin News-- Residents in northern Wisconsin got a chance to comment on a new permitting law for mines and that’s what they did.
February 10, 2013
Minnesota regulators want to know how military waste moved through state
Regional News-- Minnesota’s environmental regulators say they’re investigating the removal of 25 barrels of military waste from Lake Superior, and how they were taken away.
February 06, 2013
Letter: Follow the money to find out who’s pushing mining bill so hard, he says
TO THE EDITOR: A serious fight is brewing over the Wisconsin state legislature’s Republican-sponsored mining bill, which would open enormous tracts of the Penokee Range between Ashland and Hurley to potentially disastrous iron ore mining.By Thomas R. Smith River Falls , February 06, 2013
Letter: She urges people concerned about silica sand mining to attend meeting
TO THE EDITOR: The Town of Oak Grove has recently addressed the very real possibility of permitting silica sand mining within its borders.By Kathleen M. Breen, Prescott , February 06, 2013
Highest honor from Trout Unlimited
February 05, 2013
Military waste dumped into Lake Superior not deemed hazardous
Western Wisconsin News-- The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa says its effort to find, raise and test the contents of military waste dumped in the lake 50 years ago found nothing offering an immediate human health or environmental threat.
February 02, 2013
DNR finds contaminated wells in SE Wisconsin
Wisconsin News-- The state DNR says it’s not blaming any single source for the contamination of private water wells south and west of Milwaukee. Some folks are pointing fingers at the We Energies’ coal ash landfill in Caledonia, where excessive levels of molyb-denum were found in 14-of-20 private water wells in 1993.
January 25, 2013
Waste collected at fall Pierce County Clean Sweep up from ‘11
Collection numbers were up and participation numbers slightly down when the Pierce County Clean Sweep was held at the county’s recycling center in Ellsworth this past fall, compared to a year earlier.January 10, 2013
Bad River Chippewa tribe opposes changes in state mining laws
Western Wisconsin News-- The Bad River Indian tribe near Ashland came out yesterday against proposed changes in Wisconsin’s mining laws.
January 08, 2013
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