In yet another shakeup in the Ohio energy bribery saga that first came to light in 2020, a former state utility regulator was found dead by suicide last week. Sam Randazzo, 74, a longtime lobbyist who was appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine to chair the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, had been charged with taking a $4.3 million bribe from FirstEnergy Corp.
The Biden administration is urging a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court order that would shut down an oil and gas pipeline crossing the Bad River tribe’s reservation within three years. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio. Read the full story
Environmentalists say that a proposed mine is putting the Great Lakes environment at risk. If it goes as planned, the Copperwood Mine will sit on the Wisconsin-Michigan border and become the closest metallic sulfide mine to Lake Superior, extracting copper as close as 100 feet from the lake. Read the full story by Milwaukee Journal…
Advocates who hope to stop Wisconsin’s freshwater resources from being polluted by road salt are back to the drawing board after Governor Tony Evers vetoed a bill Friday creating a state-run program on safe salt use that would have shielded certificate-holders from lawsuits. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Read the full…
The Great Lakes shipping season started three days early this month, responding to industry calls to move more cargo amid demand for domestic steel. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio. Read the full story
The debate over Line 5 in both Wisconsin and Michigan could complicate election-year politics, particularly as candidates compete to win voters over on environmental issues, fossil fuel reliance, and jobs. Read the full story by The New York Times. Read the full story
Tribal communities have long faced barriers to clean drinking water and testing. The Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center, based in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, aims to help tribal schools, childcare centers and after-school programs across the Great Lakes region ensure their water is safe through its free drinking water testing program. Read the full story by WUMW –…
The regional grid operator that oversees electric reliability in 15 states, including nearly all of Michigan, recently released a series of proposed transmission projects aimed at stabilizing the power grid in the future as more renewables come online and coal plants retire. However, the up to $23 billion plan left out one notable project: an…
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is one of 15 places in the country that have received the marine sanctuary designation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan coast is home to dozens of shipwrecks that represent and preserve both a moment frozen in time and a window into the past….
Wisconsin is adopting its biggest change to walleye fishing regulations since the 1940s. Starting April 1, the state’s bag limit for the prized game fish will fall from five to three walleye per angler. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio. Read the full story
Last week, a divided Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that limited the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ ability to regulate PFAS and other emerging contaminants under the state’s long-standing spills law. The case is one of two efforts to weaken the spills law. Read the full story by Wisconsin Watch. Read…
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
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Twelve miles of the Line 5 pipeline cross the lands of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in northern Wisconsin.
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