The Political Environment

A forum, news site and archive begun in February, 2007 about politics and the environment in Wisconsin. And elsewhere.

Monday, September 23, 2019

21st WI hound since 7/7 sent into fatal fight with wolves. Check, please.

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The Wisconsin DNR reports that a 21st wildlife-chasing hunting hound in less than seven weeks has been released into a fatal confrontation...
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GOP Congressional candidate has ground-breaking new idea

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Who saw  that coming ? Good thing it's not related to a personal campaign for higher office, is it? Wisconsin Senate leader Scott F...
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Saturday, September 21, 2019

Sen. Johnson? Houston and Florida are on line 1

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You might want to peruse these recent news stories: * From Bloomberg news : America’s Great Climate Exodus Is Starting in the Florida K...

Ron Johnson, Senator 'Can't Do Nuthin' About It'

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Deep into his second term, WI GOP Senator Ron Johnson has perfected that Ultra-Libertarianesque 'what's the-use?' shoulder shru...
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Friday, September 20, 2019

Walker's science-scrub remains key WI DNR climate 'content'

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I've been posting on this blog since 2016 about the way Walker's DNR deleted science, data and links from its lead web page about c...
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Milwaukee, Ozaukee Counties under ozone alert Friday evening

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From the WI DNR: Advisory for Ozone (Orange) Start Time:  5:00PM CT Friday, September 20, 2019 End Time:  9:00PM CT Friday, September ...

To the WI right-wing GOP agenda of No & Never, add Stall

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[ Update - - add medical marijuana to Fitzgerald's rejection list . Sorry, PTSD and cancer suffers. Fitz has his 'principles.']...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Evers behaved like Wisconsin Governor, Foxconn says

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I'd have put that headline on this dog-bites-man story.   Foxconn says Gov. Tony Evers visited one of its Generation 6 plants during ...

SEWRPC whitewashes Foxconn environmental impacts, and other matters

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Granted that I was not at this Racine County presentation, but from this media report  - -  Many unknowns about Foxconn's environment...
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GOP gerrymandered WI legislature to nix gun violence measures

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Low-caliber legislators are enabling high-caliber, higher-velocity gun suffering. The GOP leaders controlling the state legislature they ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Walker cut climate science data, staff. Iowa won a climate science facility.

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Minnesota isn't our only neighboring state whose environmental initiatives left Wisconsin in Walker's dust. Remember,  Walker de...

Save Kletzsch Park oaks, and see Wisconsin's biggest on Oct. 5th only

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Respecting the oaks should be beyond disagreement because they preserve the land, clean the water, nurture countless other species and hono...

MN models clean energy policies WI can emulate

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The clean, green energy gap favoring Minnesota over Wisconsin is much wider than the border line on a Midwest map, but "A Tale of Two ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Fitzgerald in the news, but Vos's presence is felt, too

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It's certainly more Scott Fitzgerald's day than Robin Vos's.  Fitzgerald plods into Congressional race But while Big Fitz g...
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Greater smog will join more pesticides, dirtier water on Trump's achievement list

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Trump's wiping out by Executive order of  California's established clean air rules is going to kill some asthmatics and make lung, ...

Fitzgerald plods into Congressional race

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WI GOP Senate Leader Scott Fitzgerald is running for the Congressional seat  Jim Sensenbrenner has held since a 1979 win. This is like f...
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Monday, September 16, 2019

Officially-sanctioned dog abuse extends beyond Wisconsin's woods

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Readers of this blog know that I document Wisconsin's officially sanctioned dog abuse through a state payment program which generously ...

Public session Tuesday on proposed changes to historic Kletzsch Park

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It's time to stand up for Kletzsch Park . Again. County officials will present their latest 'improvement' plan to excavate, c...
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