The Department of Natural Resources can continue to test wastewater for PFAS but can't take legal action against polluters until state lawmakers set water quality standards for the compounds, a Jefferson County judge ruled.

Tagged with: PFAS Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

A federal judge has declined to issue a ruling on a preliminary injunction requested by Ojibwe tribes to stop the 2021 Wisconsin wolf hunt.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

A judge last week halted Wisconsin's fall wolf season two weeks before hunters were set to take to the woods, siding with wildlife advocacy groups who argued that holding the hunt would be unconstitutional.

Tagged with: DNR Gov. Tony Evers Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

An environmental-advocacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking the Department of Natural Resources policy board chairman's text messages.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The state Department of Natural Resources policy board took no action Monday after meeting in a closed session for more than an hour to discuss hiring its own attorneys in a lawsuit seeking to block the fall wolf hunt.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The state Department of Natural Resources policy board plans to vote next week on whether to hire its own attorneys in a pair of lawsuits seeking to block the fall wolf hunt, underscoring the deepening rift between the board's Republican members and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul.

Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers Josh Kaul Wisconsin Department of Justice Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

A Wisconsin judge on Friday rejected a lawsuit seeking to remove the state Department of Natural Resources policy board's leader from his post even though his term has ended.

Tagged with: DNR Gov. Tony Evers Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

A Wisconsin judge declined to let Republican legislators and a hunting group join a lawsuit seeking to remove the state Department of Natural Resources policy board's leader from his post.

Tagged with: DNR Josh Kaul Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials have taken the unprecedented step of refusing to participate in its policy board meeting later this month amidst a nasty fight over whether the panel's chairman must step down from his post.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The chairman of the Department of Natural Resources policy board said Thursday he did nothing wrong when he consulted with a Republican congressman and an aide to the GOP state Senate leader about refusing to step down from his position.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

A grassroots citizen group is pushing back against a Duluth company's proposal to bottle and sell water from a well near Lake Superior.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The leader of the state Department of Natural Resources policy board consulted with Republicans on his decision to stay on the panel after his term expired, emails show.

Tagged with: DNR Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding that a judge remove the GOP-appointed chairman of the Department of Natural Resources policy board from his position, a request designed to give Gov. Tony Evers control of a panel that decides state environmental policy.

Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers Josh Kaul Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The Wisconsin Assembly planned to vote Tuesday on a bill that would create a new $10 million grant program to help communities clean up contamination from "forever chemicals" known as PFAS but would ban them from suing those responsible for the pollution.

Tagged with: PFAS Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The Wisconsin Supreme Court was set to hear oral arguments Monday in a pair of far-reaching environmental lawsuits that could define state officials' ability to regulate factory farms and high-capacity wells and determine how far state agencies can go when interpreting state law.

Tagged with: Andrea Gelatt Brad Schimel Carl Sinderbrand Eric McLeod Gabe Johnson-Karp Jordan Hemaidan Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wisconsin Supreme Court

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a railroad company is responsible for paying the bill for cleaning up contamination in a park on Lake Superior.

Tagged with: 7th Circuit Environmental Protection Agency Seventh Circuit Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

A Fond du Lac couple has reached a plea deal to settle charges that they illegally processed sturgeon eggs into caviar.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is being sued over its enforcement of environmental-protection laws.

Tagged with: PFAS Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce

Two dairy farms and a cheese cooperative have settled water pollution and wastewater violations for $190,000.

Tagged with: Josh Kaul Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

A judge ordered the state Department of Natural Resources on Thursday to start a wolf hunt this month rather than wait until November.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Prosecutors charged the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' top sturgeon expert Thursday with obstructing an investigation into allegations that his employees have been funneling the valuable fish's eggs to a network of caviar processors under the guise of a scientific study.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

A factory farm in Kewaunee County has agreed to pay the state $144,000 to resolve pollution violations.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Gov. Tony Evers' administration announced Friday that it wants to hire outside attorneys to potentially file lawsuits over PFAS contamination.

Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers Josh Kaul PFAS Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The state Department of Natural Resources is investigating a manure spill that has apparently killed scores of fish in Vernon County.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has suspended the reporting of new COVID-19 totals until early next week while its computer system undergoes an upgrade.

Tagged with: coronavirus Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The Wisconsin Claims Board approved $10,000 in payments for two northwestern Wisconsin residents whose deer died after gypsy-moth spraying.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Claims Board Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Environmental regulators in Wisconsin voted Wednesday to table rules setting new restrictions on firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals.

Tagged with: PFAS Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

An unknown number of unemployed people in Wisconsin received too much, or not enough, in benefits from the state Department of Workforce in late April as it worked to process additional money in federal aid to help those suddenly out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic, an audit released Wednesday found.

Tagged with: Legislative Audit Bureau Rob Cowles Samantha Kerkman Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Attorney General Josh Kaul has restored the state Department of Natural Resources' power to consider, when granting permits, whether high-capacity wells might drain area water bodies.

Tagged with: Brad Schimel Josh Kaul wells Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Wisconsin Republicans were poised Tuesday to pass a bill that would impose new restrictions on the use of firefighting foam containing chemicals known as PFAS in the hopes of reducing soil and water contamination, despite Democrats' complaints that the proposal would do next to nothing.

Tagged with: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources