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The Wisconsin Legislature on Tuesday blocked proposed administrative rules that would ban so-called conversion therapy and address pollution from PFAS, also known as âforever chemicals.â
The Republican-controlled Legislature also approved bipartisan bills that would:
Allow dentists to administer COVID-19 vaccines.
Write into state law protections for pre-existing conditions already in the Affordable Care Act.
Create the first statutory guidelines for how to process sexual assault kits, which can help preserve physical evidence to aid in prosecution.
Require the teaching of the Holocaust and other genocides at least once in grades 5 through 8 and once in grades 9 through 12.
During a flurry of activity, lawmakers in the Senate also sparred over a joint resolution Senate Republicans passed to honor the life and commemorate the career of the late conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, after declining to pass a resolution honoring Black Histo
Largest solar project in Milwaukee history unveiled at MKE
It sits atop a capped landfill on city property. Share Updated: 6:40 PM CDT Mar 16, 2021
Largest solar project in Milwaukee history unveiled at MKE
It sits atop a capped landfill on city property. Share Updated: 6:40 PM CDT Mar 16, 2021
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Show Transcript HOW DO WE USE THIS LAND THAT WE CAN’T USE FOR OTHER PURPOSES THAT QUESTION ONE YEAR AGO BUT TO THIS A LANDFILL TRANSFORMED INTO MILWAUKEE’S LARGEST SOLAR ENERGY FARM MILWAUKEE’S LARGEST EVER SOLAR ENERGY PROJECT AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME RIGHT NOW. THERE ARE MANY MANY SOLAR PANELS THERE THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE WE ENERGIES AND THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT REFUELING WING OF THE WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD USED COVER NINE. RIVERS NEAR MILWAUKEE’S MITCHELL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION AS WELL AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BOTH GROW THE ECONOMY AND TO PROTECT THEIR ENVIRONMENT THIS MILWAUKEE SOLAR FARM HAS THE CAPABILIT
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One of the long solar arrays at the new solar energy farm at Milwaukee s Mitchell Airport.
A small solar energy farm built on an old city of Milwaukee landfill near General Mitchell Airport is now producing about two megawatts of electricity enough for about 500 homes. It s a cooperative project between the Milwaukee, WE Energies and the Wisconsin Air National Guard 128th Refueling Wing. The Guard s base is just north of the 7,200 solar panels.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said it s the largest solar project in city history, and part of his all of the above solar strategy. All of the above this means I continue to support a robust and competitive market for rooftop solar energy, as well as large-scale renewable energy projects through collaboration with our local utility We Energies,” he said.
F-35 Opponents File Second Federal Lawsuit Over Truax Basing Decision
A crew chief with the 115th Fighter Wing, Truax Field, Wisconsin, marshals an F-16 Fighting Falcon August 15, 2018 at Truax Field. (Cameron Lewis/U.S. Air National Guard)
11 Mar 2021 The Wisconsin State Journal | By Chris Hubbuch
A group opposed to basing F-35 fighter jets in Madison has filed a second lawsuit challenging the military s environmental review.
In a complaint filed Wednesday in federal court, Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin says the Air Force and National Guard Bureau failed to follow the law when it considered the impacts of its basing decision.