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Our Latest Reports

Ready to Shine: The Potential of Wisconsin's Solar Industry

Released 3/31/2010 - Wisconsin is facing a choice about its energy future. Our dependence on fossil fuels threatens our environment and economy. Clean energy can help Wisconsin reduce our impact on the environment while creating jobs and boosting our economy.

Building a Solar Future: Repowering Wisconsin's Homes, Businesses and Industry with Solar Energy

Released 3/26/2010 - America has virtually limitless potential to tap the energy of the sun. Solar energy is clean, safe, proven and available everywhere, and the price of many solar energy technologies is declining rapidly. By adopting solar energy on a broad scale, the nation can address our biggest energy challenges -- our dependence on fossil fuels and the need to address global warming -- while also boosting our economy.

Wasting our Waters: Toxic Industrial Pollution and the Unfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act

Released 10/21/2009 - Industrial facilities continue to dump millions of pounds of toxic chemicals into America’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters each year—threatening both the environment and human health.

Results

Our Rivers, Lakes and Streams

Clean water: Wisconsin Environment Research & Policy Center is playing a leading role educating Wisconsinites about the threat of runoff pollution and the policy solutions needed to address it. In 2009, the organization issued a series of fact sheets documenting runoff pollution from residential lawns and golf courses. The state subsequently adopted a new law aimed at addressing the problem.
Currently, we are running a large-scale citizen outreach campaign knocking on doors throughout the state educating citizens about the ways that pollution from agriculture, sewers and roads harms lakes and streams through algae blooms, sediment and weeds.

Our Staff

Dan Kohler

Dan Kohler is the director of Wisconsin Environment Research & Policy Center.