Clean Water Action Council of Northeast Wisconsin

10/23/2026

This is worth reposting.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1K1cGULeH8/

10/20/2026

Exciting news! A settlement was secured by Midwest Environmental Advocates on behalf of the Sierra Club that requires Wisconsin legislators to conduct environmental impact analyses of data center development.

This opens the doors to addressing the detrimental effects of data centers on a statewide level.

Wisconsin regulators will conduct a full statewide review of the environmental impacts of data center development under a legal deal with environmental groups.

10/19/2026

There is an ongoing lack of transparency from data centers that must be addressed, now.

Communities should be the ones making these vital, transformative decisions, not contesting these contracts after the fact.

We must hold data center developers accountable.

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. signed five nondisclosure agreements with developers, including three for projects for which local NDAs weren’t previously disclosed.

10/16/2026

Our fight has a lot in common with Flint.

, a neo-noir thriller inspired by the Flint water crisis, is coming to the Webb Theatre at St. Norbert College October 15-17. It's a story about water, power, and what happens when a community is told to trust the institutions that are failing them. Sound familiar?

After the Friday, Oct 16 performance, our ED Laura Springer will join the creative team of The Poisoner for a post-show talkback drawing parallels between the Flint water crisis and the fight to keep PFAS out of our
drinking water.

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Tickets: https://the-poisoner-de-pere.eventbrite.com

Are we ever safe?

06/06/2026

Check our new CWAC monthly update coming soon for more info on stream monitoring. Looking for more volunteers for more streams in Brown and Kewaunee counties. Thank you to the volunteers already participating! 💙

06/04/2026

Stream monitoring at Wequiock Nature Center last Sunday had an unexpected but interesting glitch with a bird banding group. Their nets for snagging birds had us finding an alternative area for monitoring but we gladly obliged. Environmentalist/wildlife specialists working ❤️ together.

05/20/2026

05/11/2026

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it.

A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of acres of national forest with glyphosate (Roundup) to kill off native shrubs and wildflowers that compete with commercially valuable trees like Douglas firs and sugar pines.

After wildfires, forests naturally rebound with diverse vegetation and wildlife. What’s replacing that recovery is rows of industrial saplings surrounded by silence. No insects, birds, or flowers. It’s just dead zones.

Glyphosate application in California’s forests has quintupled over the last two decades in one year 266,000 pounds were sprayed a record. The World Health Organization classifies glyphosate as a carcinogen. The Forest Service is using it at industrial scale, on public land, to benefit private timber interests.

This is what “multiple use management” looks like when timber wins every time. Ecological health, wildlife habitat, native plant communities all of it gets written off as competition.

05/08/2026

Legislators blocking funding should be called out and voted out.

The state’s popular land stewardship program runs out of funding June 30. Some worry more Wisconsin natural areas will be bulldozed.