STATE SENATORS TO DISCUSS WISCONSIN’S CLIMATE CHALLENGES

MADISON – Should Wisconsin move ahead on climate-change policy? What actions can businesses, farms and individuals take to meet this growing challenge?

Members of the state Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources will headline a panel discussion of these and related questions from 2:30-4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, in Room 180 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St., at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“Climate Change and Wisconsin’s Future: Issues and Opportunities” is the topic.  The event, sponsored by UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, is free and open to the public.

The audience can ask questions of this key legislative committee and the panelists, who represent other important stakeholder groups.

Participants will include committee chair Sen. Mark Miller, Sen. Bob Jauch and Sen. Robert Wirch; John Vrieze, president, Wisconsin Dairy Business Association; Scott Johnson, vice president of global environmental and safety actions, SC Johnson Company; Keith Reopelle, program director, Clean Wisconsin; and UW-Madison geographer Jack Williams. Steve Born, emeritus UW-Madison professor of urban and regional planning, will moderate.

An informal reception in Room 140 Science Hall will follow the discussion.

For more information, contact Steve Pomplun at 263-3063.