Wisconsin Examiner Stories

A coalition of more than two dozen conservation groups sent a letter to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Tuesday seeking to stop a logging project in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest over concerns that the Trump administration’s approval […]

A U.S. military firefighter for 32 years, Kurt Rhodes trained and performed his duties with aqueous film forming foam, or AFFF — a highly effective fire suppressant that he never knew contained PFAS chemicals, now known to be harmful to human […]

Clark Evans, a meteorological professor at UW-Milwaukee, is impressed by the severity of the recent heat waves that have crept northward, part of a global trend of blistering temperatures. “Some of our hottest days here in Wisconsin tend to […]

A federal rule limiting agencies’ power to regulate water pollution will severely restrict protections for waters and wetlands throughout the country, but could also be subject to challenges from conservative groups that maintain the new rule […]

Three of Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) attended public hearings Wednesday where members of a Senate committee questioned them about some of the state’s thorniest conservation issues.  The […]

The Farm Bill, an omnibus five year bill dealing with farm and food programs, ultimately affects everyone in Wisconsin. Whether you farm, eat, depend on food assistance programs, or just like to breathe clean air or have access to clean water, the […]

Conditions at the Waupun Correctional Institution (WCI), one of the Badger State’s several over-crowded prisons, have become intolerable for the nearly 1,000 people incarcerated there, according to a Wisconsin Watch investigation in […]

The City of Eau Claire filed a lawsuit Monday against more than 30 manufacturers of products containing harmful “forever chemicals,” stating in a press release that the companies, not the public, should pay to clean up the contamination […]

Residents of a small Oneida County town where nearly 50 residences are under public health advisories for contamination from so-called “forever chemicals” filed a lawsuit earlier this month against the paper mill they say is responsible […]

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Department of Health Services (DHS) have placed 47 private wells in and around the Oneida County Town of Stella under health advisories due to the presence of harmful chemicals known as […]