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Governor Tony Evers stopped in Marshfield to speak with local leaders, and take a look at the city's new temporary PFAS treatment plant. He said that republicans in the state legislature need to free up the $125 million dollars set aside in the state budget for PFAS relief
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A state appeals court says environmental regulators can't force landowners to clean up pollution from so-called forever chemicals without first implementing specific limits on contamination. The 2nd District Court of Appeals' 2-1 ruling Wednesday all but eliminates the Department of Natural Resources' authority to unilaterally mandate reporting PFAS contamination in groundwater and force responsible parties to clean it up.
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Decades’ worth of toxic "forever chemicals" are sitting in landfills, presenting a new contaminant for waste handlers who didn’t create the pollution, but now find themselves awash in it. A few companies are trying to filter PFAS out of their leachate, and researchers are studying whether it might escape from trash into the air.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers reiterated Tuesday that he will veto a Republican bill that would create grants to fight pollution from so-called forever chemicals and again asked GOP lawmakers to release to environmental regulators $125 million set aside to deal with contamination.
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Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have passed a bill that would unlock $125 million to fight so-called forever chemicals. But Gov. Tony Evers isn't on board with the plan.
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Gov. Tony Evers is signaling that he won't sign a Republican bill that would release tens of millions of dollars to combat PFAS pollution despite support from the state's municipalities.
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The Wisconsin DNR updated its fish consumption advisories.This includes new guidance for the Moen Chain of Lakes in Oneida County.The chain is in the Stella area where some of the highest levels of PFAS contamination have been found in private wells.
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Consortium of Great Lakes universities and tech companies gets $15M to seek ways to clean wastewaterThe National Science Foundation has given a consortium of Great Lakes-area universities and tech companies $15 million to develop ways to extract harmful substances from wastewater.
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Recently, the Oneida County Board requested the DNR offer PFAS testing of private wells in the county that are near sites where biosolids have been spread. This is a guide to look at some of that data and give people an update on PFAS in the county.
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The Oneida County Board wants the Wisconsin DNR to do more testing of private wells in the county.PFAS chemicals have been linked to health conditions like increased cholesterol levels, decreased vaccine response in children, and increased risk of kidney cancer.