Top Priority Campaign

Clean Energy,
Green Economy

It’s time to repower Wisconsin and revitalize our economy with clean energy.

Clean energy can create jobs, reduce our dependence on oil, keep our air and lakes clean, and help us solve global warming.

That’s why Wisconsin Environment is calling on the state to adopt a plan to get at least 25 percent of our energy from clean sources, like wind and solar, by 2025, while using energy more efficiently and reducing emissions.

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Join us at a special town hall forum!

Come join us on March 11 at 6 p.m. for a Clean Energy town hall forum.

A panel of experts will discuss how the Clean Energy Jobs bill will benefit the greater Milwaukee area with green jobs, lower energy bills and a cleaner, healthier environment.

Plus, talk with local installers about rebates and incentives to improve energy efficiency or install renewable energy at your home or business.

Click here to RSVP

Speakers will include Dan Kohler, director of Wisconsin Environment; Steve Ostrenga, CEO of Helios USA; Dave Boetcher, IBEW Government Affairs Coordinator; and Sen. Jim Sullivan (5th district).

The town hall will be held at:

West Allis Public Library
7421 W. National Ave.
Constitution Room
West Allis, WI 53214

Any questions? Contact Lindsay North at (608) 287-0867.

Co-sponsors: Wisconsin Environment, IBEW, Helios USA, Clean Wisconsin, Sierra Club, Milwaukee River Keeper

E-cycling victory for Wisconsin!

After months of our campaigning and hundreds of citizens voicing their support, the legislature approved the electronic waste recycling bill for old TVs, computers and other electronic equipment.

By winning this campaign, we will prevent an estimated 10,000 tons of computer monitors and 24,000 tons of televisions from being land-filled every year in Wisconsin.

Click here to read more about the victory, and to thank the state Senate for establishing a program that's important for our environment and public health!

On Oct. 23, Wisconsin Environment Director Dan Kohler, Sen. Mark Miller and Rep. Penny Bernard Schaber stood by as Gov. Doyle signed the bill into law.

Save our Lakes!

This summer we received a stark reminder that we need to do more to protect our lakes. We saw Madison’s best beaches were declared off limits and our lakes were so full of algae that we couldn’t fish in our favorite spots.

We need to address the biggest source of the problem: agricultural pollution from manure, pesticides and fertilizers. Unfortunately, large agribusinesses are determined to develop huge factory farms in Wisconsin that will only make the problem worse.

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Our Latest Reports

Flawed from the Start: How the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute Gets the Economics of Energy Policy Wrong 1/07/2010

As Wisconsin considers sweeping changes in public policy to reduce the state’s dependence on fossil fuels and transition to a clean energy economy, it is imperative that those decisions be made based on a sound understanding of their ramifications on the state’s economy and the environment.

Generating Failure: How Building Nuclear Power Plants Would Set America Back in the Race Against Global Warming 11/20/2009

Far from being a solution to global warming, nuclear power will actually set America back in the race to reduce pollution.

Victory!

Gov. Doyle Signs Clean Lakes Bill!

On April 14th, after unanimous votes from the state Assembly and Senate, Gov. Jim Doyle signed the ‘Clean Lakes Bill’ into law. Wisconsin Environment backed the legislation to ban phosphorus in fertilizer as a common sense measure to protect Wisconsin’s lakes from algae blooms. Read more.

Latest News

Wisconsin River Ranked 38th Nationally for Most Toxic Discharges 10/21/2009

Madison, WI – Following recent national coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post on the state’s water quality problems, Wisconsin Environment released a new report today showing that industrial facilities dumped 4.1 million pounds of toxic chemicals into Wisconsin waterways.

In the News

Health care uproar drowns out climate-change debate 9/03/2009

WASHINGTON — The August uproar over health care reform almost muted public discourse over global warming, a climate phenomenon that holds serious implications for Wisconsin and the rest of the nation.

State wind initiative pushed 4/01/2009

APPLETON — Gov. Jim Doyle wants Wisconsin to be the nation's hub for wind energy development and center for parts to build turbines that generate electricity.