Milwaukee Firm Dumping Pollutants That The Sewerage System Cannot Remove
Two environmental organizations - - Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers and Midwest Environmental Advocates (a public interest law firm) - - are trying to use the US Clean Water Act to stop something pretty...
View ArticleGrowing Awareness In Wisconsin That The Great Lakes Compact Is A Necessity
In the last few weeks, a coalition of elected officials in Milwaukee County, along with a separate action by Milwaukee's Common Council, approved strong resolutions of support for the Great Lakes...
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Feds Force Chastened Wisconsin To Listen To The People: Some Progressive State
WisDOT Coming Under Increasing Fire Over One-Sided Highway Spending The refusal of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) to consider transit services in its $1.9 billion plan to rebuild...
View ArticleGeorgia and Waukesha: More Than A Sister State-County Relationship
When you don't like an agreement, see if you can change the wording after all parties signed on, and also agreed to making no major changes. That's what Waukesha wants to do with the eight-state Great...
View ArticleBusStop. Water Panel Weak on Specifics
Water Panel Weak On SpecificsThe Politics of Water. Thursday, May 21.A panel ensconced by the Public Policy Forum in a Wauwatosa hotel, was strong on the language of cooperation, happy about the...
View ArticleScott Walker -- Actually trying to fix problems is hypocrisy
Remember when people actually tried to fix things that were broken? When government agencies working together was a good thing? When if you saw a problem you actually went to work, rolled up your...
View ArticleWetlands bill -- 'cause who needs water anyway?
I know it is really hard to keep up with the continual torrent of bad legislation beating at the door of the capitol, but this one in particular needs attention. The Wetland Regulatory Reform bill is...
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Milwaukee's nascent water-research hub may benefit from Obama executive order
So is Milwaukee a tired, rustbelt industrial city with no modern technological base? Not really.After the waterborne cryptosporidium crisis in 1993, Milwaukee moved light years toward better treatment...
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Public invited to share priorities for water quality standards
State officials are seeking public input on 22 water quality standard topics for Wisconsin lakes and rivers related to the protection of public health, recreation, fish and other aquatic communities....
View ArticleWisconsin DNR forced to face reality that water flows through the ground
A quick note from the Friends of Central Sands, who recently won on the issue of cumulative effects of high capacity wells. The DNR's inability to consider these effects in well permitting has been a...
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