Environment


EV’S THE TRUTH

The groundswell of trash talk around electric cars leaves me, an owner of both a Chevy Volt first, and now a Bolt, mystified, angry,  but hardly speechless.  Mystified, because the complaints about EV's bear no similarity to my own experience with them over the past six and a half years.  Angry, because I'd bet good money that the source of the snow job comes directly from the fossil fuel industry first, and anyone hawking the Infernal Combustion Engine (ICE), second.  After almost seven years behind the wheel of an EV here is what I have found. My entry into the EV ...

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NO IOLA SAND MINE


ROCK EDUCATION

  This is an opportunity to learn more but it is also an opportunity to possibly let others know that the ground water at the Reef is 0-20 feet. It is in an area of the Ice Age Trail and a class A trout stream. Most importantly, we must protect our water at all costs. Please join other northern Wisconsin citizens for an educational event in Wausau on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 from 1:15 to 3:45 PM.    

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Elevated Arsenic Detected in Wells at Reclaimed Flambeau Mine Site

*Editor's Note: there has never been a sulfide mine that has not polluted. For Immediate Release, March 1, 2024    Contacts:  Laura Gauger, Deer Tail Scientific (Duluth, MN); Tel: (218) 724-3004 Dr. David M. Chambers, Center for Science in Public Participation (Bozeman, MT); Tel: (406) 585-9854   Elevated Arsenic Detected in Wells at Reclaimed Flambeau Mine Site - Wells within 140 feet of Flambeau River are Contaminated; State officials have taken no action   Groundwater quality testing at the reclaimed Flambeau Mine site south ...

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Walt Bresette, Ojibwe leader and environmental hero, in Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame

Ojibwe environmental and treaty rights activist Walt Bresette will be inducted posthumously into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame (WCHF) in a virtual ceremony on April 17, 2024. Bresette will join over 100 members inducted since the Hall of Fame's inception, including Aldo Leopold, Nina Leopold Bradley, John Muir, Gaylord Nelson and Menominee Nation environmentalist Hilary Waukau, Sr. Sandy Lyon and Walt Bresette at the acid train blockade on the Bad River Ojibwe reservation. | Photo by Kathy Olson, published with permission.   Ojibwe environmental ...

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‘Coordination’ meetings in Northern Wisconsin

‘Coordination’ meetings in Northern Wisconsin – Land & Water Conservation being targeted A Texas-based group called the American Stewards of Liberty (https://americanstewards.us/about/ is orchestrating an effort to influence northern Wisconsin politicians to adopt their agenda. Those politicians are in-turn exerting their influence on local units of government (Town, Village, & County Boards) and promoting the Texas-based group’s agenda. This group is against land and water conservation. Instead, they advocate for natural resource exploitation. They ...

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Genuflecting In The Forest

Bearing witness to the carnage we of the Homo Sapiens lineage inflict on one another sours even the most optimistic of souls.  What thoughtful person among us is not dragged inexorably down the dark whirlpool when confronted by yet another mother ravaged by the violent destruction of her dearly beloved, big eyed child?  We use the language of hatred, spraying out machine gun words like terrorist, demon, migrant rapist, left wing thugs and countless others to make righteous our own terrorism and salve our night time pangs of guilt with their soothing unguent.  Sad ...

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2023 Year in Review

Another Year of Historic Citizen-Driven Action and Research. Riverside Park Finally Remediated 17 Years After First Dioxin Soil Samples in 2006. 2023 was a special year. It not only marked the 5-year anniversary of Citizens for a Clean Wausau’s founding in 2018, but also encompassed major community progress on multiple critical local environmental fronts. A list of CCW’s 2023 news and research posts can be found on this page below our highlight commentary. Citizens for a Clean Wausau dedicates its work this year to Teresa Mills of CHEJ, in order to honor our ...

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Appellate Court Upholds Reversal of Kohler Wetland Permit

  WE WON! Appellate Court Upholds Reversal of Kohler Wetland Permit.   DNR admits "gaps of information"   Press Release   For immediate release:   Friends of the Black River Forest   December 5, 2023   Court of Appeals affirms reversal of Wetland Fill Permit for proposed Kohler golf course. The reversal of the DNR-issued wetland fill permit required for construction of the Kohler Company's proposed golf course in Sheboygan has been upheld by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District III.  A ...

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WUUSAN ~ December ALL MEMBER MEETING

WUUSAN's ALL MEMBER meeting for December will feature Anahkwet (Guy Reiter), executive director of the Menominee community organization Menīkānaehkem Community Rebuilders  and Director of Rights of Nature Wisconsin.    Date: December 13, 2023 Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM Location: On line. All are welcome!   All Member meetings are available to anyone on the mailing list and invited guests.  Please register to receive the Zoom link: TWwIoIoR40-WcJB69Wgoew2

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