Tag: wisconsin
-
Wisconsin Governor Wants to Cut $8 Million from Bioenergy Research
– by Thomas Content and Lee Bergquist, February 28, 2015, Journal Sentinel In an about-face from his first term, Gov. Scott Walker wants to eliminate funding for a University of Wisconsin-Madison renewable energy research center that has played a key role in helping land one of its biggest government grants ever. In his budget, Walker is…
-
Fire at Brand New Biomass Incinerator in Rothschild, Wisconsin
-April 11, 2014. Source: Wasau Daily Herald ROTHSCHILD — Firefighters extinguished a blaze that ignited in a dust collector at the Domtar biomass power plant early Friday morning. Rothschild Fire Department crews responded to the plant just before 4:30 a.m., said Chief Marc Hill. When crews got to the plant, a fire was burning inside the dust collector and…
-
DTE Energy: Black Soot Irks Residents of Cassville, Wisconsin
– by Jeff Montgomery, March 22, 2014. Source: THOnline.com bloximagesnewyork CASSVILLE, Wis. – Linda Hulst said she began noticing the soot shortly after a nearby biomass plant started operations. For three years, the black, charcoal-like matter has sprinkled her property. “Every fresh snow is covered with it,” she said. “It gets on our deck, on our furniture, on the…
EJ Communities Map
We are mapping all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities in the US. We are building a network of community groups to fight the facilities and the corporations behind them.
Related Projects
ActionPA
EJnet
Corporations
Race & Class Census Map