MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court says the state does not have the authority to determine whether state-issued water pollution permits comply with federal law. The court’s 5-2 ruling Wednesday comes in the case of environmentalists who argued ...

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The 2009 razing and burning of a barn in the town of Linn, Walworth County, led to Chicago-based Mir Co. settling a lawsuit Wednesday, according to a news release from Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. In late spring 2009, ...

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Companies are considering mineral mining in Wisconsin for the first time in a decade, but it might take a change in state law to jump-start operations. Aquila Resources Inc., a Canadian mining company, recently applied to the Wisconsin Department of ...

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The Wisconsin Department of Justice has reached a settlement agreement with Andrew P. Dahl, owner of Dahl Well Drilling LLC, Glenwood City, for violations of state laws regulating well drilling, pump installation and safe drinking water. According to the complaint, ...

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The city of Menasha has entered into a consent decree with the Sierra Club and several government agencies regarding its operation of the River Street Power Plant. The plant was voluntarily closed in October 2009 because of the air pollution. ...

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Saying the owner of a sunken barge in Milwaukee was a “textbook example of a litigant playing fast and loose with the judicial system,” an appellate court judge Tuesday upheld more than $37,000 in environmental penalties. The case stems from ...

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The former owner of a storage yard in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley whose property was seized through eminent domain faces a Dec. 1 deadline to remove a barge that sank in the river next to his former property.

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