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MEDIA CONTACT: Mark Treichel Hoffman York (414) 225-9554 mtreichel@hyc.com - Initiative reduces energy use of companies by 25 percent over next 10 years - DETROIT, Mich. (September 14, 2009) -The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) and Focus on Energy, along with more than 300 industry, state and federal leaders, gathered September 9-10, 2009 to accelerate industrial energy efficiency at the Midwest...

Cooperative Health Choices (CHC) of Western Wisconsin has named WPS Health Insurance as its partner and targeted November 1, 2009, as the coverage effective date. CHC was formed in 2008 through proactive actions of a steering committee that explored solutions to containing the rising cost of health insurance and expanding insurance as a benefit to owners and workers. CHC and...

Contact: Janet Jenkins (608) 224-4920 MADISON--Counterfeit Wisconsin Department of Revenue checks are being used by at least one “purchaser” to pay for items sold through Craigslist. “It appears that this is another fake check scam used to cheat consumers out of their money,” says Janet Jenkins, Trade and Consumer Protection division administrator with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and...

CONTACT: Dan Vimont, 608-263-3420, dvimont@wisc.edu; Chris Kucharik, 608-890-3021, kucharik@wisc.edu MADISON - If the future scenarios being churned out by the world's most sophisticated computer climate models are on the mark, big changes are in store for Wisconsin's weather during the next century. Using a realistic estimate of future global carbon emissions, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are forecasting significantly warmer winters, altered...

NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: (202) 586-4940 Washington, DC – Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that Wisconsin will receive $11,743,000 in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support energy efficiency and conservation activities. Under the Department of Energy’s Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program, the state will implement programs that lower energy use, reduce carbon pollution, and...

Contact: Liz Schrum or Tom Still at 608-442-7557 Or visit http://www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com to learn more MADISON – Early stage companies in Wisconsin and beyond will have three opportunities to present to private equity investors gathering in two Madison venues this fall. The Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium (Nov. 10-11) and the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum (Nov. 11-12) at Madison’s Monona Terrace Community and Convention...

MEDIA CONTACT: Robyn Nowak Hoffman York (414) 225-9520 rnowak@hyc.com - Solar Energy Conference demonstrates the practicality of solar energy for Wisconsin - MILWAUKEE (Sept. 14, 2009) - Focus on Energy, Wisconsin's statewide resource for energy efficiency and renewable energy, along with We Energies and the Wisconsin Green Building Alliance, will demonstrate how Wisconsin residents can incorporate solar energy into their businesses, careers and homes at...

For more information contact: Cindy Tomlinson, Associate Manager – PR TDS Telecommunications Corp. 608-664-4471 / cindy.tomlinson@tdstelecom.com MADISON, Wis. (Sept. 14, 2009) — A real-time video and audio connection will connect soldiers of Wisconsin’s Army National Guard Units, including the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, with family members here at home for an old fashioned Wisconsin tailgating celebration. The event will include food, Packers...

Media Contact: Joan Collins Publicity: 608-222 2899 Gage Marine, on Geneva Lake in Williams Bay, has purchased Summerset Marine, Delavan. Bill Gage, president of Gage Marine, said the showroom at the Delavan Location includes Bennington and MasterCraft boats to add to the Williams Bay line that features Monterey, Boston Whaler and their own custom built Gage-Hacker wooden boats. The Gage Marine...

Contact: Mark Skogen President/Owner Festival Foods West Support Center 276 W. Mason Street Green Bay, WI 54303 920-496-2960 x 1411 mskogen@festfoods.com September 14, 2009 – Festival Foods is joining forces with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University to celebrate the seventh annual Family Day – A Day to Eat Dinner with Your ChildrenTM on Monday, September 28, 2009. Launched by CASA in...

A special University symposium “Climate Change and Green Jobs” will be presented in Madison on Friday, September 18, 2009. The symposium is presented by the University of Wisconsin Law School, the Business, Environment, and Social Responsibility Program at the Wisconsin School of Business, and the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council together with Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. The presentations will emphasize: * Responding...

Contact: Jennifer Smith, Thrive, 608‐443‐1961, jsmith@thrivehere.org Find this online at: http://www.thrivehere.org/media VERONA – Good news for the increasing number of consumers looking to buy local foods: a group of Wisconsin organizations are working to match local grocery stores with more than 50 local farmers and food companies and launch a new Grocers Buy Local campaign....

Contact: Greg Friese, MS, NREMT-P, WEMT Telephone: 715-204-9874 Email: gfriese@eps411.com Announcing Launch of PIOSocialMediaTraining.com PLOVER, WI – Social Media can empower anyone - emergency responders, patients, and bystanders - to be public information officers (PIO). Learning to use social media tools before, during, and after major incidents is a significant challenge for public information officers and incident command staff of emergency response agencies. PIOSocialMediaTraining.com launched an...

Media Contact: Scott Reigstad (608) 458-3145 Residential customers receive natural gas usage/cost data, Focus on Energy Cash-Back Reward information, energy efficiency tips, and federal tax credit opportunities MADISON, WI – September 14, 2009 – To help residential customers understand their average daily natural gas usage and cost and learn how to become more energy efficient while taking advantage of cost-saving opportunities,...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 MADISON – Fuhrmann Mink Farm, Inc., which operated a mink production facility near the unincorporated Calumet County village of St. Anna for over 50 years, has agreed to replace several neighboring wells, to remediate nitrate contamination at the site of its former mink farm, and to pay...