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| 9/10/2003 | |
| In the days leading up to public hearings on whether Wisconsin will permit three brand new coal-fired power plants outside Milwaukee, several groups released a report giving Milwaukee mixed reviews on its air quality. WISPIRG, the Sierra Club, and Clean Wisconsin released "Danger in the Air: Unhealthy Levels of Smog in 2002." | |
| 4/6/2005 | |
| As the Bush administration renews its call for Congress to pass its stalled "Clear Skies" bill, a new Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) report finds that a loophole in the fine print of the bill could exempt 39 percent of the nation's coal-fired power plant units from regulation, allowing them to emit toxic mercury indefinitely. | |
| 10/28/2003 | |
| The vast majority of air pollution from the nation's dirtiest power plants, including from the Blount Street and Columbia plants here in Wisconsin, is pollution that should be cleaned up with modern pollution controls under the Clean Air Act, but that would remain untouched under the Bush administration's new rules relaxing power plant emission limits. | |
| 1/26/2005 | |
| As a key U.S. Senate committee considers the Bush administration's bill to delay and weaken clean air safeguards, a new Clear the Air report released today by the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) finds that sixty-four percent of Wisconsin's oldest and dirtiest power plants are getting dirtier, not cleaner. | |
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