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Congress Approves Great Lakes Compact!

Over the last year, Wisconsin Environment worked with a coalition of environmental and conservation organizations to build support for a strong Great Lakes Compact to protect and conserve our most treasured natural resource.  In May, 2008, after months of campaigning, and thousands of citizens voicing their loud and consistent support, the Legislature approved the Great Lakes Compact with a nearly unanimous vote.  The U.S. Senate approved the bill in August and now, in September, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Compact with bi-partisan support.  Read more.

Thank your representatives and Governor Doyle for supporting strong protections of our Great Lakes.

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Wisconsin Global Warming Solutions

With comprehensive global warming legislation stalled in Congress, it falls to states like Wisconsin to lead America down the right path. Fortunately, we already took a big step in that direction in 2006, when the state committed to using more homegrown, clean energy, such as wind and solar power, and biomass from our farms. 

Wisconsin Environment is calling on the Legislature to establish a science-based plan to address global warming. Specifically, we are asking them to adopt the Wisconsin Safe Climate Act to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
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Beyond Oil: The Transportation Fuels That Can Help Reduce Global Warming 7/17/2008

The growing threat of global warming, air and water pollution, and rising energy costs are a few of the many problems that result from our current over-reliance on petroleum-based transportation fuels. Alternative transportation fuels, in conjunction with an array of other energy-related strategies, have the potential to help mitigate these problems—if public policy prioritizes those fuels that can deliver the greatest benefit for the environment and the American people.

Building an energy-efficient America: Zero energy and high efficiency buildings 7/01/2008

This white paper describes the different methods and technologies available to build highly efficient and zero energy buildings and to retrofit existing buildings to use much less energy than they do now, and the policies needed to make highly efficient and zero energy buildings the standard.

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