Imagine dirt bikes or four-wheelers bumming around the hillside around La Crosse’s Grandad Bluff all day. That’s, essentially, what the city of Houston, Minn., is considering...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has rejected another attempt by opponents to shut down construction work on Enbridge Energy’s replacement for its aging Line 3...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied a request by two American Indian tribes to shut down construction of a contentious crude...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bipartisan task force that brought together environmentalists, the energy industry and others released its recommendations Wednesday for how Wisconsin might bolster...
Turning trash into invaluable information, the Wisconsin DNR launched a waste characterization study at Wisconsin landfills. This past September, SCS Engineers began collecting and sorting samples...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Mining applicants would have to pay more for permits and licenses, supply more detailed plans to state regulators, and work around a...
The city of La Crosse is asking the state for money to help improve the La Crosse River marsh. The park board has approved a request...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge refused Monday to reinstate a wetlands permit for a $75 million frac sand operation near Millston, Wis. in Monroe County....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal officials on Tuesday denied extending protections under the Endangered Species Act to a subspecies of moose that historically appeared in four...
The fate of the world could rest on Florida. No, not the presidential election. Mosquitoes, 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes. That’s the number of GMO mosquitoes...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The number of dead dolphins that have washed ashore on the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius after an oil spill has risen...
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey joined a coalition of 27 states, territories, cities and agencies in suing the Trump administration over what she...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Environmental groups filed lawsuits aimed at halting efforts by the Trump administration to open up wide swaths of Alaska’s Arctic to oil...
It’s been protected from industry for six decades. This week, the Trump Administration overturned those protections on the country’s largest remaining stretch of wilderness. “They just...
You don’t see it often. Even less so in Wisconsin — bipartisan legislation. The state got that last year in restricting firefighting foam containing PFAS, compounds...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Anxious residents of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius stuffed fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves Saturday to create makeshift oil spill...
Praising it as a chance to conserve and manage waters such as the Mississippi River, Congressman Ron Kind (D-La Crosse) is pushing for the Senate to...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan sought a written pledge Friday from Enbridge Inc. to cover costs that would arise if oil were to leak from...
CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. environment chief said Wednesday that “time is running out” to avert an environmental, economic and humanitarian catastrophe from a deteriorating oil...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic is drastically reducing the number of young whooping cranes to be released this fall to help bring back the...
