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Farmers vow to reduce phosphorus, bane of Green Bay
GREEN BAY — By one key metric, Green Bay’s phosphorus problem is not improving. Despite fish kills, toxic algae blooms, unsafe beaches and an annual dead zone in the Lake Michigan bay sparking concern...
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12 Sandy GIFs: An animated guide to Wisconsin’s frac sand rush
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View ArticleWisconsin DHS auditor retreats from $3.5 million claim against family...
The state Department of Health Services’ top auditor on Wednesday backed down from a claim that two family planning clinics serving low-income people were overcharging Medicaid for birth control by...
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Investigative Reporting + Art: The Spring 2015 Wisconsin Tour
Road trip! We’ve transformed our reporting on problems with Wisconsin’s water quality and supply into sculptures that you can see and touch — including a life-size half cow and 1,000 balls of wool....
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Podcast: How we animated Wisconsin’s frac sand rush
In this new episode from our very occasional podcast series, I chat with Center intern Taylor Chase and artist Jacob Berchem about a little experiment we published on WisconsinWatch.org last week: 12...
View ArticleLayoffs at Wisconsin DNR would trigger terminations of limited-term employees
Main story Gov. Scott Walker’s science cuts may hinder efforts to halt walleye decline Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed cuts to Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources scientists could extend...
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Gov. Scott Walker’s science cuts may hinder efforts to halt walleye decline
Sidebar Layoffs at Wisconsin DNR would trigger terminations of limited-term employees This project In Water Watch Wisconsin, the Center is exploring threats to Wisconsin’s water quality and supply....
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Feds seek public input on Midwest bat protection plan
Lindsey Heffernan / Pennsylvania Game CommissionThe highly deadly white-nose syndrome has spread rapidly since it was discovered in New York in 2006. The disease has killed millions of bats, including...
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Photos: Reporters at work, summer 2015
Investigative reporting is not all sorting through records requests and spreadsheets, at least in the summer. Four photos of Center staffers on the job in recent days: 1. The Center works closely with...
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Nitrate in water widespread, current rules no match for it
This Series Our Water Watch Wisconsin project examines water quality and supply issues. This series, Failure at the Faucet, investigates threats to drinking water across Wisconsin. Having trouble with...
View ArticleGoing organic: One farmer’s fight against contaminants in the groundwater
Main Story Nitrate in water widespread, current rules no match for it In the early 1990s, Jim Goodman and his wife began to worry about how the chemicals they were using on the farm might affect their...
View ArticleCost of most drinking water pollution borne by consumers
Main Story Nitrate in water widespread, current rules no match for it Agriculture creates most of the nitrate pollution, but consumers pay most of the cost, whether they drink from public wells or...
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