Coal's Perils Are Extensive
Our addition to coal-burning electricity generation leads to dirty air and polluted lungs, but follow this New York Times account of the cascading harm underway from one big coal ash depository.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
On the Milwaukee lakefront
Waukesha County, Republican pols failed to kill it.
Sunset on the lakefront, summer 2018
86 turbines overcame Walker's blockade
The historic 19th-century building has stone floors, copper decoration, and iron work by the famous artisan Cyril Kolnic. Stop in and walk around.
Milwaukee skyline
A forum, news site and archive begun in February, 2007 about politics and the environment in Wisconsin. And elsewhere.
Fall sunset past the Hoan Bridge
Lake Michigan gale
On the Milwaukee lakefront
Milwaukee's streetcar, "The Hop," is running.
Waukesha County, Republican pols failed to kill it.
The Calatrava Addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum
Sunset on the lakefront, summer 2018
Milwaukee River empties into Lake Michigan
Wisconsin wind farm, east of Waupun
86 turbines overcame Walker's blockade
Skylight illumination in Milwaukee City Hall
The historic 19th-century building has stone floors, copper decoration, and iron work by the famous artisan Cyril Kolnic. Stop in and walk around.
What water, wetland protection is all about
"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.
Lake Michigan in winter
Milwaukee skyline
James Rowen's Bio
James Rowen is an independent writer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as the senior Mayoral staffer in Madison and Milwaukee and for newspapers in both cities. This blog began on 2/2/ 2007.
Blog Archive
-
▼
2010
(2117)
-
▼
March
(216)
- Zoo Interchange; More Questions Than Answers
- Inquiry Validates Climate Change Data, Cites PR Mi...
- Advertisers Have Dumped Glenn Beck: Here's How It ...
- Major Earth Day Conference At UW-Madison; Register...
- Courting Young Donors, GOP Gets Clubbed
- WisDOT On The Hot Seat
- Marie Rohde Continues Her Reporting On Church Abus...
- When At The County Courthouse, Take The Walker Wal...
- More Road Repairs, Less New Construction
- Electric Cars Hitting The Showroom
- Green, Preservation Zone Emerging Along Milwaukee ...
- SmartBrief On Sustainability A Good Source
- Water, Jobs And Justice: One Day Left To Speak You...
- Gretchen Schuldt: Road Maintenance Woefully Underf...
- Can Waukesha Legally Flush Some Lake Michigan Wat...
- Why Howard Kurtz Is A Must-Read
- Illegal Trucks Damaged Zoo Bridge
- In Diversion Estimate, Waukesha Includes Unspecifi...
- Waukesha's Mayoral Candidates, On Water
- GOP Gone Wild
- Tidbits From Today's M-7 Water Council Confab
- Bad News Bores
- Great Lakes Expert Focusing On Waukesha Diversion ...
- Movement On Compromise Energy Bill
- For Wauwatosa, A Checklist Should Waukesha Wastewa...
- Wisconsin Highway Bypass Mania: This Time, Hortonv...
- Marie Rohde Freelances To Chicago Tribune On Pries...
- Racine Hosts Noted Anti-Train Obsessive
- Racine Business Community Campaigns For Commuter Rail
- Death Of A Gentle, Fine Man
- Media Catch-Up: The Health Care Mandate Is a GOP/T...
- Earth Hour - - Lights Off Tonight
- Law Enforcement Failed Sexual Abuse Victims
- Standing Up For Social Justice
- Kenosha Blogger On The Bottled Water Issue
- It Costs More To Live In The Suburbs, Data Show
- Amidst His Foaming, A Worthwhile Belling Nugget
- Tommy Fiddles, Todd Tweets; A Tea Bag Surprise
- Yeah, I Know...They're Only Plants And Animals
- Drivers On The Information Super-Highway Will Not ...
- Documenting Our Region's Sprawl
- Splitting The New Freshwater School Would Be A Mis...
- A Repentant Protester Does The Right Thing; GOP Le...
- Little Room At American Enterprise Institute For E...
- Highway 164 Ruling Gains Clarity, Permanence
- Auto Insurance Is Mandatory, Too
- Major Groundwater Measure Coming Up For Assembly H...
- Waukesha School District Has $2.5 Million Seized T...
- Catholic Church Abuse Scandal, Edging Closer To Po...
- Spin On UWM County Grounds Plan Is Dizzying
- Finish The Work On Energy Bill
- Talgo Train Plant Set For Milwaukee: Facts And Myths
- Waukesha County Opts Out Of Regional Transit; Milw...
- The Palin Ego Express
- In The Senate, More "No" For The GOP, Country
- MATC Green Summit Begins Wednesday Morning
- Send Rush To Costa Rica
- Health Care Reform Has Not Slowed The Dow Jones
- Right Wing Talk Radio Stirring The Pot, Again And ...
- The Party Of "No" Says "Yes" To Financial Chaos
- Water Wars In Waukesha
- Would Waukesha Want Wauwatosa To Dump Its Wastewat...
- World Bank Ignores Water-Starved Countries
- Tommy Thompson Confused About His Work
- Laugh Along With Cong. Randy ("Baby Killer") Neuge...
- The Right's Self-Induced Hysteria Gets Even More D...
- Wauwatosa Gets Details Of Waukesha Wastewater Dump...
- Monarchs Decline: UW-M And Milwaukee County May He...
- Drought Leads To Solar Panel Facility
- House Democrats Voting "Yes" On The Health Care A...
- Let Christopher Walken Be Your Census Guide
- GOP Distances Party From WingNut Slurs In DC
- Suburban Counties Yearning For Secession
- Great Lakes Can Supply Wind Power
- Rightist Protestors - - GOP Shock Troops - - Disgr...
- We Are Far Behind In High-Speed Rail
- More Angry Rightists Protesting Health Care Reform...
- Stewart Udall, R.I.P.
- Scott Walker Is No Friend of Rail In Milwaukee
- Corporate Support For Climate Change Bill
- Pabst Farms' Hospital Leads To Job Cuts At Nearby ...
- Analysis Show's Paul Ryan's 'Plan' Is Wealth Trans...
- Sometimes David Brooks Is Worth A Read
- Big Earth Day Event In Madison
- Scott Walker Needs To Condemn This Outbreak Of Job...
- Earth Day, Gaylord Nelson, Honored By Congress
- Jon Stewart Channels Glenn Beck: Must See Video
- Dems Defining Tommy As Mr. Inside
- Target Tosa; A Water Discharge Fee Would Help
- Waukesha Water Utility Votes To Recommend Lake Mic...
- Bi-Partisan Energy Bill Taking Shape In US Senate
- Energy Independence Is National Security: Check Ou...
- Blogger Calls Regional Water Payment "Extortion"
- Supervisors Keep Full Pension, Risk Recall, Help W...
- Business Publication Assesses Waukesha Water Politics
- Walker And Neumann Are Too Funny
- Oh, No. Another Doyle Trade Mission: Might More Jo...
- Walker Voted For Train Buying Statute He Now Condemns
- Water Can Serve Regional Justice - - And Waukesha ...
- Ohio Tea Partiers Mock Man With Parkinson's Disease
-
▼
March
(216)
Followers
Recommended Blogs
- Bill Christofferson Xoff Blog
- Bill Sell - Socrates Children
- Blogging Blue
- Caffeinated Politics
- Citizens Allied for Sane Highways (CASH)
- Climate Chronicle
- Compassionate Badger
- Compost Guy
- Congresspedia/Wiki/Sunlight Blogs
- Dale Olen Blog
- Dave Dempsey Blog
- edible nation
- Energetich20
- Eye On Wisconsin
- Fighting Bob/Ed Garvey Blog
- Furthermore Blog
- Grassroots Northshore
- Gristmill
- Haas414
- Hearts and Minds/ Clyde Winter
- Illusory Tenant
- Immigration Orange
- In Effect
- James Howard Kuntsler
- James Rowen's Blog at UppityWis.org
- James Rowen's Daily Kos Diary
- Jay Bullock/Folkbum
- Madison Peak Oil
- Michigan Liberal
- Mid Coast/Michael Rosen
- Milwaukee Rising (Formerly Storyhill.net)
- Mobile's Take
- Noah Hall/Great Lakes Law Blog
- One Wisconsin Now
- Paul Soglin/Waxing America
- Plaisted Writes
- Progressive Majority Power Blog
- Pundit Nation
- River Rat - - River Alliance of Wisconsin
- Roger Bybee's Bread and Roses
- Sky Blue Waters
- Sprawled Out
- Stuart Carlson Cartoons
- Sustainable Walworth
- The Daily Yonder
- The Overhead Wire
- The Sconz
- The SEIU Blog
- Third Coast Digest
- Tim Cuprisin at OnMilwaukee.com
- Tree Hugger
- Uppity Wisconsin
- Urban Wilderness
- Watchdog Milwaukee
- Water and Watersheds Oregon State University
- Water Blogged in Waukesha
- Water Crunch/SE United States
- Whallah!
- WI Public Health POlicy Blog
- Wingnut Prophet
google analytics
No comments:
Post a Comment