Milwaukeeans have been shivering and wet this past week, so it’s easy to believe that our soggy, cold April means that global warming or climate change isn’t a serious threat. But unfortunately it is

 After all the grim news we’ve had to endure at the end of the year, isn’t it great to live in a state where we don’t have to go very far at all to retreat into natural beauty and spiritual solitude

 Rivers don’t respect political boundaries. So why should clean water advocates be divided by those artificial divisions? That was the thought that launched

Last Wednesday, a Milwaukee Common Council committee voted to pursue negotiations to sell...

The deadline for a decision on Milwaukee County's crumbling Estabrook Dam is June 24, according...

Gov. Scott Walker and his allies in the conservative movement and at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel claim...

When campaigning for governor in 2010, Scott Walker promised that he would create 250,000 jobs in his first term. Each act of his administration would serve that goal—including his stewardship of the environment...

“The ball’s in Waukesha’s court,” said Eric Ebersberger, water use section chief for the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR), of the agency’s decision to stop reviewing Waukesha’s application for Lake Michigan water. Specifically, DNR Secretary Matt Frank wrote in a...

The state has signed off on New Berlin�s request to receive more Lake Michigan water from the Milwaukee Water Works. The eastern portion of New Berlin already gets its water from Lake Michigan because it falls within the Great Lakes basin. The community applied to receive more water for its western areas, which have unacceptably high levels of radium. From the DNR�s announce...

Riverkeeper Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called it “a giant fish-killing machine,” but the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) just gave a preliminary OK to We Energies’ plan to build a 1.5-milelong water-intake pipe into Lake Michigan.