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Failure at the Faucet

Wisconsin strontium levels among highest in U.S. drinking water supplies

By Jane Roberts | March 13, 2016

Eastern Wisconsin has among the highest levels of the heavy metal strontium in drinking water. Limits may be on the way for this unregulated contaminant.

Birth Control

Family planning clinics say state audits could force many to close

By | November 1, 2014

Two family planning clinics serving low-income women say their operations will be at serious financial risk if state auditors stand firm on claims that they overbilled Medicaid by $3.5 million, largely for birth control drugs and devices.

“My hunch is that if any one of us were audited it would come out the same way. We’re all operating the same way,” said Beth Hartung, president of the Wisconsin Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. “It would mean, quite frankly, that we would all close.”

public health

In state’s karst area, even good farming may pollute groundwater

By | August 19, 2014

Two new studies of private well water in Kewaunee County have linked contamination to fertilizer, livestock manure and human waste. “In these shallow bedrock areas, what you put on the surface, you will end up drinking eventually,” county conservationist Andy Wallander said.

DNR

Permits: What a frac sand mine needs

By | January 31, 2012

Overview of permits required to operate a frac-sand mine.

Butterflies

Frac sand in Wisconsin: Links and contacts

By | January 31, 2012

Resources to learn more.

Economy

Wisconsin milk board removes weight loss claims from website

By Amy Karon | October 19, 2011

The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board has retreated from claims that consuming dairy products could aid weight loss after some experts branded the statements “deceptive” and “discredited.”

Economy

Wisconsin milk board claims dairy aids weight loss

By Amy Karon | October 17, 2011

A major Wisconsin dairy group continues to promote dairy products for weight loss, four years after two national groups, under pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, agreed to stop.

milk

Wisconsin milk board overstates dairy’s benefits to children, some experts say

By Amy Karon, Catherine Martin and Jessica Gressa | October 16, 2011

The milk board, which spends nearly a million dollars a year promoting dairy’s health benefits to children, defended its conduct and said claims were based in science.

DNR

Sand mining surges in Wisconsin

By Jason Smathers | July 31, 2011

This western Wisconsin community is in the midst of a land rush — call it a sand rush — fueled by exploding nationwide demand for fine silica sand used in hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas. At least 16 frac sand mines and processing facilities are operating, and an additional 25 sites are proposed, in a diagonal swath stretching across 15 Wisconsin counties from Burnett to Columbia, the Center has found.

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