Milwaukee Scientists Finding Cures For Great Lakes Pollution
The Great Lakes are under growing stress due to pollution, invasive species and declining levels.Wisconsin is discovering that a once obscure research arm of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,...
View ArticleYou Probably Live In An Area With a Powerful Regional Planning Body - - But...
There are regional planning commissions across the country that have a large voice in how major development and infrastructure gets planned, funded and created.Things like highways, water systems, and...
View ArticleTommy Thompson's Legacy in Wisconsin Was Deficits
Unreliable, Big Spending 'Conservative' Joins GOP Primary Field.That should be the headline on former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson's announcement Sunday that he is a GOP presidential wannabe.
View ArticleTemperature and Population Pressures In The Arid US West Put Pressure on...
Take a look at today's page one New York Times photo and piece about the Western drought. Great Lakes residents need to understand that arid states will come knocking for water - - the pipeline issues...
View ArticleEarth Day 2007 Will Be Inertia Day For Great Lakes Water
Media love round-number anniversary dates - - the tenth anniversary of this, the 25th of that, and so on.So here's a number that's worth considering as we approach Earth Day, 2007 on April 22nd...
View ArticleBoston Globe Story Says Bush "To Worry About Global Warming Tomorrow"
I ran across this story online and I thought, "what's new about that?" Bush has been pushing concern about climate change aside for years. Little did I know how right I was.Read on...
View ArticlePolitical Obstinance and Sideshows Slow Great Lakes Conservation Planning
Wisconsin is a crucial state in the eight-state process to adopt new conservation rules and diversion standards governing water use in the Great Lakes basin.But even though the current 22-year-old...
View ArticleTommy Thompson, Ignoramus. Wisconsin Is Embarrassed
Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson thinks making money and business skill are part of the Jewish religion.He shares these stereoptypical beliefs with a Jewish audience in Washington, DC, while...
View ArticleWisconsin Tells Its Citizens Their Opinions Do Not Count On Water Diversion...
Wisconsin has had a long history of public participation in environmental policy-making, but its Department of Natural Resources is not interested in public comments on a controversial plan to divert...
View ArticleGreat Lakes Compact Water Debate: A Wisconsin Records Archive
I use my blog - - http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogs... - - to follow the debate in Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region about plans to institute new, eight-state rules that would mandate...
View ArticleJune 8th Deadline To Comment On Great Lakes Water Conservation
In December, 2005, the governors of the eight US Great Lakes states and the premiers of the two Canadian Great Lakes provinces met in Milwaukee and adopted the first set of amendments to the Great...
View ArticleGOP Backing Into Global Warming Suggests It's A Hot Issue
When George Bush and some of the GOP candidates who want his job all acknowledge the realities of global warming, you know there's been movement in their internal polling.Showing that the longer they...
View ArticleBritish Petroleum Backs Down, For Now, On Lake Michigan Pollution
Public pressure forces BP to set aside its permission to add three tons of ammonia and sludge to Lake Michigan as part of a refinery addition in Northern Indiana.
View ArticleBP Has Backed Down: Is Murphy Oil Next?
British Petroleum says it won't add more pollution to Lake Michigan. Don't start celebrating yet.
View ArticleDo We Want A Six-Times Larger Oil Refinery On Lake Superior
If it finds a partner to share the possible $6 billion cost, Murphy Oil Co., based in Arkansas, wants to vastly expand its Wisconsin oil refinery on Lake Superior. Is that good for Lake Superior and...
View ArticleBP Says Its Refining Discharge is 99.9% "Ordinary Water." Umm, Good!
Remember that flap about British Petroleum wanting to add more ammonia and sludge (what the company calls "suspended solids") to Lake Michigan at its Whiting, IN refinery? Not to worry, says the...
View ArticleCanadians Link Water Use To Oil Production; Can Both Countries Protect Their...
It take a lot of water to get crude oil from Canadian tar sands.And produces a lot of waste water.It takes more water to refine the crude along the US Great Lakes, and produces more waste water to...
View ArticleWisconsin Convenes Regional Global Warming Initiative - - Then Announces...
Within a few hours of closing a Great Lakes governors' regional summit on energy policy, conservation and global warming reduction, Wisconsin officials announced the biggest highway expansion program...
View ArticleMilwaukee Radio Show Host and Station Decline Appeals For Religious Tolerance
A Right-Wing Milwaukee talk show host, backed up by station management at WTMJ-AM 620, are at odds with Milwaukee's mainstream religious umbrella group called the Interfaith Coalition of Greater...
View ArticleWisconsin's Fading Progressive Traditions
Wisconsin gave birth to the Progressive Party, and has championed public participation in governing through open access statutes. But when it comes to major transportation and water-diversion plans in...
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