On Friday, August 23rd at 9 a.m. in Colbert Park, Mayor Cory Mason will sign “Ordinance 0021-19 – Sale, Application, and Use of Coal Tar Sealant Products” into effect. The City of Racine is the second largest Wisconsin city to pass a coal tar sealant ban. Coal tar-based sealants are coatings typically applied to driveways […]
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Posted inCommunity, Government
Your news roundup for August 2
Here are several headlines from national, state and local news sources today. News Headlines 9th Circuit rules White House can’t withhold money from ‘sanctuary cities, Politico Dow set to drop nearly 200 points after Trump threatens China with bigger tariffs, CNBC Clean Wisconsin sues over state smog regulations, WPR Wisconsin confirms death linked to fake […]
Posted inGovernment
Letter To The Editor: The Cost Of Coal
Drive along Highway 32 and you catch only a brief glimpse of We Energies’ massive Oak Creek power plant, one of the last big coal-fired plants to be expanded in the United States. You can see the plumes of steam from miles around, but the plant itself is mostly concealed behind a series of berms, […]
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We Energies’ Neighbor Claims Coal Dust May Have Made His Family Sick
Tim Hupp, 54, lives at 7832 Douglas Avenue in his childhood home and suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He has been hospitalized 18 times with pneumonia since 2008. His wife Sue has cancer and three of his siblings also died of cancer. The couple moved back into Tim’s childhood home in 2004 after his mother […]
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We Energies Neighbor: “Nobody Really Knows Who To Call…”
Frank Michna, 64, lives at 7755 Michna Road, less than a ½ mile away from the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant. His family had a homestead in the area in the mid-1800s, and he has lived all of his life on Michna Road with most of his family. About seven or eight years ago […]
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Sierra Club To Hold Talk On Molybdenum In Drinking Water
Editor’s note: Please note that the club changed the venue for this seminar. The Sierra Club Southeast Gateway Group will host a seminar about the health effects of excess molybdenum in our drinking water. A Clean Wisconsin study released last fall found unsafe levels of molybdenum and other contaminants in both school and residential wells throughout Racine, […]
