Author: Wisconsin Public Radio

Milwaukee is measuring how extreme heat affects the city, hoping to avoid major heat-related fatalities that occurred across southern Wisconsin in 1995. On one 90-degree day this summer, volunteer citizen scientists with weather sensors attached to vehicles will spread out across Milwaukee to measure the air temperature in the morning, afternoon and night. “We’ll be looking at the weather patterns to try and find a good day to do the study,” said Tim Halbach, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sullivan. “A hot, dry, sunny day is preferred. The study will happen sometime in July, which...

Wisconsin is set to receive nearly $79 million over the next five years to expand electric vehicle charging stations through the federal bipartisan infrastructure law. Now, state policymakers are tasked with developing a plan by August to expand access as the auto industry and utilities rapidly move toward an electrified transportation system. Policy issues facing electric vehicles and the state’s transportation system were the focus of a panel discussion held on May 3 by the Customers First Coalition that was broadcast on WisconsinEye. The panelists included representatives of utilities, automakers, road builders, energy advocates and Wisconsin Transportation Secretary Craig Thompson....