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Wisconsin primarily generates its electricity from coal and natural gas. The next three biggest sources (nuclear fuels, hydroelectric dams and wind) make up a small percentage of Wisconsin’s electricity generation.

The Badger Institute believes that energy solutions must include a pragmatic balancing of costs and benefits to the economy both now and long-term. The transition must be dictated by science and economics and include free-market principles.

Energy Featured Analysis The cost of outlawing fossil fuel heat in Wisconsin Badger Institute statement of guiding principles on energy…

Gov. Tony Evers, who has set as a goal that “all electricity consumed in the state be 100% carbon-free by 2050,” is making sure that state agencies and local governments are able to ban the use of fossil fuels to run cars and lawnmowers, heat homes and power stoves.

Policymakers and environmental activists opposed to the use of fossil fuels like natural gas have pushed state and local governments to ban their use in homes and businesses without consideration of increased cost to consumers, the nature and reliability of our energy supply or technological advances impacting emissions. Other policymakers — including some in Wisconsin — have in response introduced legislation designed to ensure the continued right to use fossil fuels to heat and power buildings as well as cars and various other devices.

Is the left really coming for your gas stove? Wisconsin Republicans, who have introduced legislation ensuring you will be able to continue to run your appliances and your car and your home on fossil fuels, clearly think so. And there is considerable evidence they are correct.

Climate change alarmism has become a science of its own.

One of the following two things happened this month. Guess which one didn’t:

Coalition letter to Wisconsin legislators regarding proposed propane tax

Protecting the environment should be a goal for individuals of every political and economic stripe

Climate change has been blamed over the years for the rise … and fall … and rise again of lake levels

Outdated Wisconsin law hampers electric automaker’s direct-sales business model

The unprecedented COVID crisis has devastated Wisconsin families, businesses and schools. The coming weeks will be deeply challenging as the state tries to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. Now, more than ever, public policy matters.

A free-market coalition of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin, the Badger Institute, and MacIver Institute have pooled their resources to offer some solutions and policy recommendations to assist the state’s workers and businesses, provide more certainty during the crisis, and spur a quick and lasting recovery.

Commission staff adds expensive requirement to solar farm project without considering the cost or whether a bird-death problem even exists…

In the past, climate change has been a wedge issue between conservatives and liberals, but that tide appears to be turning.

Seventy-five parts per billion is a huge number when it comes to ground-level ozone pollution, says the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

By Mike NicholsApril 2013 (Volume 22, No. 1) Josh and Greg Clements grew up in Bloomer atop the seemingly bottomless…

In the summer of 1997, Wisconsin’s electrical generation system was in trouble. Two of the state’s nuclear generating plants were…

CHARLES J. SYKES Even for a normally frigid region like ours, this was still the season of our discontent. Abetted…