Susan Bence
Environmental ReporterSusan Bence entered broadcasting in an untraditional way. After years of avid public radio listening, Susan returned to school and earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She interned for WUWM News and worked with the Lake Effect team, before being hired full-time as a WUWM News reporter / producer.
Susan is now WUWM's Environmental Reporter, the station's first. Her work has been recognized by the Milwaukee Press Club, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, and the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.
Susan worked with Prevent Blindness Wisconsin for 20 years, studied foreign languages at UWM, and loves to travel.
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The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District is celebrating the completion of a massive structure designed to hold vast amounts of contaminated sediment that have plagued Milwaukee’s rivers and estuary for decades. -
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will be conducting a statewide review of the environmental consequences posed by large data centers. The measure comes after Midwest Environmental Advocates filed a lawsuit on behalf of Sierra Club last July. -
Trade ministers from some of the world’s biggest economies were in Milwaukee this week for a meeting of the G20 – or Group of 20. It was a delicate time and place to negotiate, given President Trump’s global trade strategy. -
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Commission voted unanimously to award 2028-2036 wastewater treatment plant management contract to Jacobs Engineering. Veolia will continue to push back in court. -
Access to affordable food is a growing challenge that doesn’t spare older adults. We examine a Milwaukee County program addressing that problem, one senior diner at a time. -
For decades, Hunger Task Force has been in the business of getting food to people in need – including older adults. Chief strategy officer Jonathan Hansen shares how his organization is tackling food access among people 60 and older. -
The Shorewood village board is meeting Sept. 21 in closed session to deliberate its next move after losing its trespass case against resident Paul Florsheim in circuit court. -
We’ve been checking in on Milwaukee-area families in neighborhoods that endured extreme flooding in August 2025. One Wauwatosa woman shares her family's experience. -
Veolia filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin Eastern District Court to stop the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Commission from moving forward with the next 10-year contract to manage two wastewater treatment plants. -
A circuit judge ruled Paul Florsheim could not be ticketed for walking the Lake Michigan shoreline beyond Shorewood’s public beach. But Wisconsin still lacks a clear policy on the public’s right to enjoy the Great Lake shores.
