The Political Environment

Today's Crossroads section in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel features a solid piece by Dale Olen about the need for Wisconsin to adopt t...

Add Madison Peak Oil to your valuable internet reading.

So says Patrick McIlheran , the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's in-house conservative columnist and blogger, if I'm reading him correct...

It's the energy policy trifecta: To produce gasoline at an expanded Murphy Oil refinery in Superior, on Lake Superior, crude oil from ...

Just another Bush administration story: enforcement against polluters is down, reports The Washington Post - - not pollution. Carry on...unt...

The New York Times tells us that the boom in corn-based ethanol is going bust. Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote on this blog about ethanol...

So let's get this straight: The state transportation department, Waukesha County, The City of Oconomowoc and the Pabst Farms developer...

You've seen the stories: George W. Bush wants to do something, or think about something, or get some PR for wondering about climate chan...

News and blogger accounts of the probable expansion of Murphy Oil's Superior, WI refinery have been bubbling to the surface . The Arkans...

The New York Times looks at what happens when population growth and resource gorging is totally out of synch with the amount of water that i...

When the City of Waukesha announced it planned to acquire acreage in the neighboring Town of Waukesha at the edge of the Vernon Marsh to sin...

While talk radio know-nothings deny that climate change is a real and growing dilemma - - a "global emergency," as Al Gore correct...

1000 Friends of Wisconsin will honor Gaylord Nelson at its 2007 Annual Meeting on Wednesday, October 24th, with a program that includes a lu...

President George W. Bush has just requested another $190 billion for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan - - but will veto $23 billion in impro...

There's only one realistic way to read this story : Bad news for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler in the incompleted ethi...

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker stumbled Wednesday in a too-hurried effort to get, as they say in politics, "ahead of the story...

The construction of the already-controversial pipeline carrying Canadian tar sand crude oil from Superior to St. Louis has led to numerous i...

State Senator Tim Carpenter, (D-Milwaukee), correctly asks Gov. Jim Doyle to support a provision in the State Senate's version of the bu...

A conference committee of US Senators and Representatives has agreed on a major water spending bill, but removed key oversight reforms, acco...

A public meeting of the Milwaukee County Conservation Coalition will be held 7:00 PM at the offices of the Milwaukee Environmental Consorti...