Clean WIsconsin: Report — Midwest receives mediocre grades for clean energy economy
Contact: Keith Reopelle, 608.251.7020 ext. 11, 608.212.2935 (cell)
Once a leader, Wisconsin quickly becoming drag on regional clean energy efforts
MADISON – A new report released today by the National Wildlife Foundation, Unfinished Business: What the Midwest Needs to Do to Lead in the Clean Energy Economy, gives the Midwest mediocre grades as a region for its progress toward building a...
UW-Madison: Four UW-Madison students share $50,000 prize in climate contest
Contact: Tracey Holloway, (608) 262-5356, taholloway@wisc.edu
MADISON - Four undergraduates have won $50,000 in a student competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for innovative ideas to counteract climate change.
Joseph Keuler, Matthew Kirk, Patrick Kirk, and David Osmalov captured the grand prize in the third annual Climate Leadership Challenge at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies' Earth Day Conference.
Their team...
USDA: Official coming to Wisconsin to address biofuels initiatives and programs – April 28th
CONTACT: Kelly Edwards
Phone: 715-340-1264
E-mail: kelly.edwards@wi.usda.gov
STEVEN POINT, WI – APRIL 21, 2011 - - - Todd Campbell, U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Confidential Assistant for USDA Rural Business and Cooperative Programs,...
UW-Madison: Welcomes gift of celebrated Taiwanese feature films
CONTACT: Nicole Huang, 608-262-9876, nhuang@wisc.edu
MADISON - "The medium of film allows us to 'visit' lands and even times far away, where we often discover ... our shared humanity makes us much more alike than we might have thought," says Perry Pei-hwang Shen, director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago.
A unique collection of 30 celebrated...
Montgomery: New PSC chief seeking ‘balance’
By Brian E. Clark
For WisBusiness.com
Though he’s had a long career as a Republican partisan, Phil Montgomery stresses that he wants to be seen as an independent actor at the PSC.
“I view this more as a quasi-judicial role,” the former GOP Assembly energy chair said in a new WisBusiness.com interview. “We are not the Legislature, not the executive branch. We...
