MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders say they’re skeptical about a plan in Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ budget that calls for borrowing $40 million to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unsafe drinking water, not climate change, is the world’s most immediate public health issue, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler contended Wednesday. Environmental...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s water supply faces contamination threats ranging from fertilizer to fire-fighting foam, creating a risk of birth defects, cancer and learning disabilities,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says. Climate change, a global...
KEWAUNEE, Wis. (AP) — Scientists are one step closer to understanding how dangerous contaminants from fecal matter are entering private wells in a northeastern Wisconsin county....
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican legislators began a push Tuesday to streamline Wisconsin’s water pollution credit-trading system, introducing a bill that would create a clearinghouse that...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce a plan for dealing with a class of long-lasting chemical contaminants amid complaints from members...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers says his budget will seek more money for replacing polluted wells. Evers announced Wednesday that his budget will allocate...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers will call for allowing state environmental and agricultural officials to borrow nearly $70 million more over the next two...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One-third of Himalayan glaciers will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, threatening water sources for 1.9 billion...
MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin company that makes firefighting foam knew its toxic products were contaminating groundwater at least four years before notifying residents, according...
A large hog lot in northern La Crosse County is in line for a permit renewal from the Wisconsin DNR this year, but the county health...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers pledged to clean up Wisconsin’s drinking water in his State of the State address, promising to work to...
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general in 2016 promised to investigate “without fear or favor” the scandal over Flint’s lead-tainted drinking water and pledged that state...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will take up a series of legal disputes that could have far-reaching implications for state regulators’ power to...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has restored Wisconsin’s authority to protect water quality after ruling it was improperly given up in a settlement with a...
A report out Thursday said 42 percent of 301 random wells in southwest Wisconsin were contaminated. Some of that can be blamed on farm waste or...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Madison water utility officials say they will step up testing for toxic chemicals that are spreading from contaminated soil and groundwater at...
If the state of Minnesota is rejecting a plan for a large corporate hog farm in Fillmore County, one might think opponents of the farm project...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It started out modestly enough: David Hertz, having learned that under the right conditions you really can make your own water out...
