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Barnes’ message is flood resilience and ag opportunities are priorities Monroe County RAINFALL MONITORS like these will be deployed in the Kickapoo and Little LaCrosse River water-sheds in Monroe County this spring. The devices have been purchased through a fundraising effort and donations from the community, and will allow almost real-time notifications in a flooding situation. MONROE COUNTY - Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes returned to a meeting of the Monroe County Climate Change Task Force on Wednesday, Feb. 3. This was almo...

Helena City Commission to consider resolution on diverting waste from landfill By: Jonathon Ambarian and last updated 2021-02-17 21:06:04-05 HELENA — Helena city leaders will consider next week whether to adopt a new conservation goal: preventing more solid waste from ending up in the landfill. Currently, the city estimates about 20% of the solid waste it manages is diverted – meaning it is recycled, composted or otherwise kept out of the landfill. On Monday, the Helena City Commission will discuss a resolution endorsed by the Citizen Conservation Board, which would ...

• 49,400 respiratory symptom cases • 873,000 minor restricted activity days • 148,000 work loss days • 34,400 cases of asthma exacerbation • 670 hospital admissions Health impacts According to the WHPCA, over 150 major medical organizations, representing over 650,000 health professionals have declared that climate change is a health emergency. This includes the Wisconsin Medical Society, whose physician membership endorsed key policies to transition Wisconsin to 100 percent clean energy while preparing for climate change. WHCPA’s report on climate and health specifies that “in c...

As hot as John Travolta was in the ‘70s, an even hotter report from Jonn Axsen, Director of Sustainable Transportation Action Research Team and Michael Wolinetz at Navius Research is slamming California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office 2018 Low Carbon Fuel Standard report that had recommended the legislature rely more on the cap-and-trade policy instead of an LCFS. Also hot-off-the-press news that folks are lovin’ is the proposed New Mexico Clean Fuel Standard Act, a Governor’s priority bill that would bring an estimated $47 million in economic investments annually to the state while ...

Permian Basin Oil Field in Eddy County President Joe Biden wasted no time in starting to tackle some of the country’s most pressing climate change issues after being inaugurated on Jan. 20. One of Biden’s first acts as president was to rejoin the U.S. to the Paris Agreement, a 2015 non-binding pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions necessary to keep the planet’s warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.  Nearly every country in the world has made the pledge to act on climate change, but Former President Donald Trump announced plans to remove the U.S. from the accord in 2017. The country ...