The Kabasas, whose home is surrounded by a Superfund site with century-old pollution, are divided on whether to worry about it.
Category: Environment
Toxic legacy: Century-old tar plumes under Lake Superior stir health fears — and a cleanup could be years away
Millions of gallons of contaminated groundwater and thousands of gallons of gooey black coal tar lie underneath Ashland’s downtown waterfront. It is by far the thorniest cleanup of an old manufactured gas plant in Wisconsin — both because of the difficulty in cleaning it up, and in finding someone to pay for it.
Wisconsin water woes
National health rankings report that large numbers of people in Wisconsin are exposed to contaminated drinking water.
Wisconsin InfoLink: The Herbarium
Learn to identify Wisconsin plants with the Wisconsin State Herbarium’s online resources.
DNR continues to miss own goals for managing CWD
The latest population figures of deer with chronic wasting disease are nearly 160 percent over target.
Investigative reports, news and updates
News and notes: New tools for monitoring environmental data in Wisconsin; the governor’s campaign contributors favor keeping him in control of DNR; DOJ hosts free seminars on government sunshine; and tax revenue was down last year.