The Environmental Protection Agency is quickly getting out of the protection business. And no where is that more clear than its new plan to get rid of the Endangerment Finding, the landmark legal and science determination that climate change hurts people and that the EPA has the responsibility to do something about it.

On this episode a look at why the EPA is now insisting climate pollution won't hurt you, and what walking back the endangerment finding could mean for Wisconsin.

Host: Amy Barrilleaux

Guest: Clean Wisconsin General Counsel Katie Nekola

Resources for You:

Take Action: Tell the EPA not to rescind the Endangerment Finding

Livestock farmers in Wisconsin are getting excited about solar! MG&E's Tyto solar project is home to about 13,000 solar panels, 30 acres of thriving plants, and a flock of happy sheep.

Amy takes a behind-the-scenes look at the solar energy project where 145 hungry sheep are hard at work this summer.

Host: Amy Barrilleaux

Guests: John Armstrong, manager of renewable engineering, Madison Gas and Electric

Beau Stafford, Wiscovery Farms

Resources for You:

Supporting Solar in Wisconsin

Episode 40: Surprising Environmental Impacts of Solar in Wisconsin

Analysis: Solar produces 100 times more energy per acre than corn grown for ethanol

In the long, never-ending struggle to protect our environment, it can be easy to feel helpless, powerless. Maybe nothing underscores that feeling more than trying to stop a big foreign oil interest from building a pipeline across your state. But there is something you can do to speak out against the Line 5 oil pipeline. And it's fun! Amy looks at the Move People Not Oil campaign.

Host: Amy Barrilleaux

Guest: Jacob Ahrens-Balwit, Strategic Communications Manager, Clean Wisconsin

More Resources for You:

Enbridge Line 5 Blasting Area Photos (Instagram)

Move People Not Oil - Take the pledge and more information

Latest on Line 5

If you are feeling afraid to click on news stories every time a decision gets handed down by the US Supreme Court, you're not alone. But some recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions are bringing much-needed good news in the fight to protect our environment.

Host: Amy Barrilleaux

Guest: Evan Feinauer, Clean Wisconsin attorney

Resources for You:

Episode 29: Trump's threat to safe water (and how WI can fight back)

Episode 24: What Trump 2.0 means for our environment

Episode 20: Supreme Court power grab

Northern Wisconsin is home to Lake Superior, to beautiful streams and wetlands, to thousands of acres of mesic forests--and to a 72-year-old oil pipeline called Line 5. Now the foreign oil company, Enbridge, that owns and operates the line is pushing to blast and trench its way across northern Wisconsin to build a reroute. Amy gets the latest on legal action to stop it.

Host: Amy Barrilleaux

Guests: Clean Wisconsin attorneys Brett Korte and Evan Feinauer

Resources for You:

Information on Line 5

What Line 5 means for me (video)

Clean Wisconsin News: Sign up for Line 5 updates and more

Milwaukee is at the center of what the federal government calls an "Area of Concern." A place where so much toxic water pollution and environmental degradation have happened over the course of more than a century, that it needs special attention and funding to get cleaned up.

But how do you confront and begin to heal the collective harms of legacy pollution? Of decades of injustice that is still happening? Amy talks with Shalina S. Ali about how that process can start with art, with creativity, with channeling the mixture of emotions—the joy and pain—that comes with working toward change.

Host: Amy Barrilleaux

Guest: Shalina S. Ali, Co-Executive Director, TRUE Skool

Resources for You:

Area of Concern Community Advisory Commiteee

TRUE Skool Summer Park Jam

Peace Park & Garden Mural Unveiling

The Big Beautiful Budget will have some ugly consequences. In this episode, why the fallout from Trump's budget will include bigger bills, toxic emissions, and yep - more risk of blackouts.

Host: Amy Barrilleaux

Guest: Ciaran Gallagher, PhD, Energy & Air Manager, Clean Wisconsin

Resources for You:

Join Clean Wiscosin's Action Network

Have you ever wondered what it's like to stand next to a wind turbine? You're about to find out. In this epsiode, Amy meets 2nd generation Wisconsin farmer Jerry Cigelske at his Columbia County farm to talk about about why cows, grass and windmills have been the key to keeping his family on the land.

Host: Amy Barrilleaux

Guest: Jerry Cigelske, Columbia County farmer

Resources for You:

Wisconsin-grown clean energy

Showing up for Wind in Wisconsin

Cows in the Woods: What it takes to create a silvopasture

If you are a regular listener, you have heard of neonicotinoids, a class of neurotoxins used on food crops all over the state and country. And it turns out, neonics are hurting a lot more than pollinators - like fish, birds, small mammals and potentially people.

On this episode, what we know about the impacts of neonic pesticides on our bodies and how to limit exposure.

Host: Amy Barrilleaux

Guest: Kayla Rinderknecht, Population Health Fellow, Clean Wisconsin

Resources for You:

Episode 43: The hidden pesticides that could be lurking in your pollinator garden

Episode 33: Wisconsin's bees are acting weird. Here's why.

Neonicotinoids and their Impact

Episode 23 Neurotixins on Our Plates

Neonicotinoids and Human Health

You never know when a life-changing moment is going to come. For Sarah Savage, owner of Tend Native Plants, it came when she picked up a book about pollinators. Amy meets Sarah at her small plant nursery in Blue Mounds, Wis., to talk about the hidden pesticides that could be lurking in our gardens and how to make sure the flowers we buy are truly pollinator-friendly.

Host: Amy Barrilleaux

Guest: Sarah Savage, Tend Native Plants

Resources for You:

Tend Native Plants

Episode 33: Wisconsin's bees are acting weird. Here's why.

Neonicotinoids and their Impact

Episode 23 Neurotixins on Our Plates

Neonicotinoids and Human Health

Expert Speakers Series: Wisconsin Neonic Forum