Factory farms in Wisconsin produce 33 billion pounds of waste every year, about four times the amount of waste created by the state’s human population, according to a new report by Food and Water Watch tracking the growth of factory farming across the country. Wisconsin ranked 10th on a ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name will remain on the state’s presidential ballot, upholding a lower court’s ruling that candidates can only be removed if they die. The unanimous decision from the liberal-controlled court ...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Thursday released a final environmental impact statement on Enbridge Energy's plan to relocate its controversial Line 5 oil pipeline out of the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin. The nearly 900-page document is another step toward the company receiving the necessary permits from the DNR to move the pipeline, which has for years drawn legal challenges and protests for its potential detrimental effect on the environment. In 2019, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa filed a federal lawsuit to force the 70-year-old ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to fire a communications professor who was seeking to retain tenure after his dismissal as chancellor of one of the system's campuses for making pornographic films. Joe Gow, who had served as ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Construction work on a high-voltage transmission linking Iowa and Wisconsin has been completed and the line is fully operational, a group of utilities announced Friday. American Transmission Company, Dairyland Power Cooperative and ITC Midwest began work on the 102-mile Cardinal-Hickory Creek line between Iowa's Dubuque County and Wisconsin's Dane County in April 2021. Construction wrapped up late last week, ITC Midwest spokesperson Rod Pritchard said. The 345-kilovolt line was fully energized Thursday. The utilities say the line will improve electrical ...
Lawmakers said during a contentious congressional hearing Thursday they are uneasy about the U.S. Postal Service's readiness for a crush of mail ballots for the November election because some of them feel burned by other Postal Service actions. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy sought to ...
