Wisconsin Environment Research & Policy Center, WISPIRG Foundation and other nonprofits launched a campaign in Wisconsin on Tuesday calling on Whole Foods to change its practices on plastic packaging.
In 2019, the U.S. produced over 30 times more solar power and more than triple the amount of wind energy than it did in 2010, according to a new report from Environment America Research & Policy Center.
Madison, WI – The transportation sector is the second largest source of global warming pollution in Wisconsin. But a new report from Wisconsin Environment Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group describes how Wisconsin can build a zero-carbon transportation future — all while cleaning our air and creating safer, healthier communities.
Environment America Research & Policy Center is submitting comments on behalf of 102 organizations today, urging the Environmental Protection Agency to dramatically reduce the massive levels of pollution dumped by agribusiness facilities into America’s waterways. The comments are in response to the agency’s decision not to update permit standards for meat and poultry plants -- despite the Clean Water Act’s requirement to do so.
MADISON--Wisconsin is failing to make progress in its recycling and waste reduction efforts, according to a new study from Environment Wisconsin Research & Policy Center. The second annual State of Recycling in Wisconsin highlights how structural challenges, the rise of plastic, effects of failing to recycle, the impact of Wisconsin’s plastic preemption law, and trends in the state’s recycling system.
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