A group of residents want a judge to require a Portage County farm to conduct more protective groundwater monitoring, saying a settlement reached between the farm and state regulators weakened oversig...

MEA attorneys are preparing for a multi-week hearing challenging state-issued permits for the construction of a new 41-mile section of oil pipeline in northern Wisconsin.

In a decision issued this week, an appellate court addressed two significant issues that will affect open government and the public records law moving forward: whether text messages on private cell ph...

The liberal-controlled court ruled that the Republican-controlled legislative committee overstepped in barring a ban on conversion therapy.

For more than four years, MEA fought to make sure Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce didn’t succeed in gutting a law that keeps Wisconsinites safe from exposure to toxic contamination. Our legal fight...

The Bad River Band will argue this week against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issuing a permit to reroute the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline.

Several organizations are asking the DNR to monitor air quality near Alliant Energy's Riverside Energy Center in the Town of Beloit.

“Thermometers don’t care who’s in office,” said Dan Vimont, a professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “By undercutting our ability to monitor and assess t...

The president is trying new shortcuts to eliminate energy and environmental rules, but legal experts say the efforts could face high hurdles.

A CDC team helping respond to a lead crisis in Milwaukee schools was cut as part of a widespread layoffs at federal health agencies this week.

The Line 6 spill has raised concerns about when the public should be notified of a spill, as well as why the initial report was so inaccurate.

It’s time we think harder about what it is we're paying for, for whom and why, and how we pay for it.

A stay on all Line 5 pipeline-related construction activities will remain in effect while our legal challenge is pending.

Competing proposals would protect “innocent landowners” — those who didn’t knowingly cause pollution — from liability under the spills law.

For more than twenty five years, Midwest Environmental Advocates has worked to protect the rights of all Wisconsinites to a clean and healthy environment. Accomplishing this mission requires us to con...

Current and former EPA staff say millions of Americans could lose access to clean air and water.

By Shereen Siewert | Wausau Pilot & Review Wausau in January initiated a comprehensive legal battle against multiple corporations doing business in

As one of its first acts, the Trump administration removed the online data tool used to allocate money to environmental justice communities. In two days, a coalition of data scientists had restored it...