Tag: Wisconsin
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Wisconsin Invites Hunters to Kill 1/4 of its Wolves
Up until January of this year, Great Lakes wolves were protected under the Endangered Species Act. But just ten months after being delisted, hunters are being given a chance to bait, trap, and shoot them for sport.
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Wisconsin Town Legally Prevented From Tightening Coal Ash Regulations
A town is prevented from creating regulations stricter than the state's rules, despite residents' concerns about groundwater contamination.
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Coal Ash Spill in Lake Michigan Occurs Within Days of New EPA Data on Hazardous Coal Ash Ponds
Researchers concluded that the spill probably doesn't pose a significant environmental risk, but the ash contained heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury.
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Internet Killing Print Media: Up-Cycling Paper Mills Could Make Digital Communications Greener
Paper Age reports that "total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 6.4% in August compared to August 2010." Burrowing in, Fortress Specialty Cellulose echos the
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Recycle Old CDs with Murfie, Buy Used Music for Cheap
Do you have music guilt? Music glut? Rows and rows of old CDs that haven't been played in years? If you're like a lot of people, you rip a CD to your mp3 player or smartphone as soon as you buy it. That's if you buy the CD at
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Better Environmental and Working Family Protections via Elections
With the recent fight over the debt ceiling in Congress, Wisconsin's upcoming recall elections have not been national news much like the state's heated politics were earlier this year. Yet many Wisconsin
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DNA Trail Maps Cougar's Dead-End Journey Across South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin & Connecticut
DNA testing of cougar crap left along a 1,055-mile trail has established that a young male Puma walked all the way from South Dakota to New England in search of a mate. The poor cat's
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Live In A Small US City? Get Ready To Train, Plane, Bus, Boat, Walk & Do It All Over Again
DELTA Airlines has announced it will stop serving twenty four (24) small US cities. With fuel costs so high, these small, rural airports with
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Free Market Takes That Incandescent Bulb And Shoves It (Aside)
Democrats and their anti-green Republican foils are far too late to control the market for incandescent light. Both the law to help slowly phase out the incandescent bulb or the recent
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Invasive Wasps Released to Battle Invasive Beetles
To the untrained eye, all may appear tranquil and calm in Wisconsin's forests, but the truth is that a war of sorts is underway -- between two foreign species on U.S. soil. For the last
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Wisconsin, Home Of The "Sewer Socialists," Redefining Future Of Environmental Regulation?
Looking over comments on my recent post, Are Wisconsin
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Are Wisconsin Voters Willing To Take Their Chances At The Tap?
When money gets tight and voters feel especially uncertain about the future, legislators, wanting to look like they are doing something to help, may be tempted to halt the normal environmental rule-making steps. Here's
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Minnesota Moose Population Crash Possibly Correlated With Climate Change
I recently was chided a bit for suggesting (without having provided a link to supporting scientific evidence) that the behavior of a central-Wisconsin black bear emerging from its
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Black Bear, Bummed Out By Climate Change, Falls Asleep In Backyard - In February.
We've all read about polar bears forced by fast-melting arctic sea ice to swim for their lives. That's a far away dream for most. A black bear sleeping in a Wisconsin back yard, in the middle of February, however,
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Cat Born in Tree Refuses to Come Down
Sure, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but sometimes a cat never leaves it at all. Last June, a litter of cats was born high up in the branches of a maple tree in Green County, Wisconsin -- and seven months later, one
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Conservationists Want Biodiversity, Poor Want Biomass: How Best To Protect Forests?
There's a new conservation approach being tested as an alternative to failed earlier efforts to preserve remnant natural forests (which continued to end up as fuel).
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'No Body's Right, If Everybody's Wrong' - Wisconsin's Republican Governor Opposes Biomass Power
Wisconsin's newly-elected Republican Governor is opposed to funding the planned biomass-fired portion of a flex-fuel
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Midwest Still At Risk Of Getting Texified By Oil Pipelines & Refineries
A few years back I wrote about plans for the Murphy Oil Refinery in northeastern Wisconsin to expand operations 700%, to take advantage of tar sands oil piped in from Canada. At
