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MADISON - The pending federal decision about whether to protect the polar bear as a threatened species is as much about climate science as it is about climate change.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is currently considering a proposal to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, a proposal largely based on...

Final decisions by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reinforce the patentability of Thomson’s human embryonic stem cell discoveries   MADISON, Wis. –The United States Patent and Trademark Office again has upheld the claims of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) by making determinations on the non-profit foundation’s two most important base human embryonic stem cell patents. These decisions are...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – Wall Street is wobbly, credit markets are imploding and two firms with deep Wisconsin ties have been battered by problems in the mortgage and the bond insurance arenas. But neither MGIC Investment Corp., the Milwaukee-based mortgage insurance company, nor New York-based Ambac, which was founded in Milwaukee and sells financial guarantee insurance,...

Prairie du Chien has been a great place to visit for a long time. History abounds there. Scenic beauty along the Mississippi River also is plentiful. It’s likely to get just that much better over the next few years. Developer Gary Barto has proposed a 17,000 square foot convention complex in downtown Prairie. By the time the entire development would...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- The rush in the United States to produce corn-based ethanol as an alternative fuel will likely worsen pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and expand the annual "dead zone" that kills fish and other aquatic life, according to new research. In the first study of its kind, lead author Simon Donner of the University of...

Design, technology and location - what does Generation Y want from the workplace? MILWAUKEE, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls, the global leader that brings ingenuity to the places where people live, work and travel, has launched a research project called OXYGENZ -- a global survey of Generation Y (18-25 year-olds) to understand their preferences for their future workplace....

MILWAUKEE, March 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Midwest Air Group, Inc. today reported February performance data for Midwest Airlines and Midwest Connect. Midwest Air Group, Inc. -- Performance Report ...

CHICAGO, March 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has awarded an $86,353 grant to the Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton School District in Ontario, Wis., for a project to cut diesel emissions from the district's school buses. EPA said the grant will be used to retrofit nine school buses with emission-reducing diesel oxidation catalysts and crankcase filtration systems. In addition, the...

MILWAUKEE & BANGALORE, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Opto Circuits (India) Limited (“Opto Circuits”) announced today that Packer Acquisition Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Opto Circuits, is today commencing a cash tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of common stock of Criticare Systems, Inc. (“Criticare”) (AMEX: CMD), for $5.50 in cash without interest and less any required withholding taxes. The tender offer...