After nearly a decade of advocacy from communities and environmental groups like Clean Wisconsin, the state has finally adopted regulatory standards for toxic PFAS in groundwater. The safeguards are critical to protect tens of thousands of rural Wisconsinites who rely on private wells for their drinking water. While Wisconsin enacted PFAS protections for municipal drinking water and lakes and rivers more than four years ago, those safeguards did not apply to the 30 percent of Wisconsinites who use private wells.
Another environmental win, this time in Superior. Utilities there say plans for a giant gas plant on the banks of the Nemadji River have been scrapped amid growing community pushback. Critics of the $700 million project say it was not needed and would have released nearly 3 million tons of greenhouse gases and 200 tons of other dangerous pollutants every year.
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