pollution

GOP lawmakers unveil a $125 million proposal. But Democrats wonder how much money will reach cities.

Kewaunee County has a private well contamination problem and now an already large dairy farm there might be allowed to get even bigger. The prospect is raising concern around the state.

Wisconsin advocates of standards that would regulate two PFAS chemicals hope they will pave the way to test for and mitigate thousands of the manufactured chemicals that can impact humans and other life.

The Wisconsin DNR reported 92 PFAS contamination sites around the state. While work is underway to regulate two of the estimated 9,000 chemicals, communities, including the Town of Peshtigo grappling with contamination, do not yet have safe, sustainable drinking water sources.

A public hearing was held Tuesday evening on a plan to expand Wisconsin's largest landfill by 76.6 acres.

The Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee will hold its first public hearing Friday in Whitewater on Gov. Tony Evers' two-year state budget proposal. It includes a plan by Evers to have the state borrow $40 million, to begin major work on a few miles of East-West I-94 on Milwaukee's near west side.

Concerns about PFAS are plaguing communities around the country, including in Wisconsin. On Thursday, the DNR announced it will be delivering clean drinking water to French Island, where firefighting foam used at the La Crosse Regional Airport is impacting residents’ private wells.

The state Department of Justice has obtained a judgment against Wisconsin Public Service Corporation. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced Thursday…

A new report offers a mixed review of the state of the health of the Great Lakes.Twenty-five years ago, the International Joint Commission – made up of…

The International Joint Commission released a report Tuesday on how the health of the Great Lakes has changed in the past 25 years. The agency, made up of…