Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Wisconsin's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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Act 89

The Act simplifies the Public Service Commission (PSC)’s process for reviewing certain electric transmission line projects that utilize existing transmission corridors. The Act creates a general state policy on the siting of electric transmission facilities as part of the state energy policy, noting that the following corridors should be utilized in the following order of priority:

1. Existing utility corridors
2. Highway and railroad corridors
3. Recreational trails, to the extent that the facilities may be constructed below ground and that the facilities do not significantly impact environmentally sensitive areas.
4. New corridors

The Act directs the PSC, Department of Transportation, and Department of Natural Resources to implement the policy in making all decisions, orders, and rules regarding the siting of these facilities.

SB 324; Relating to: restrictions on use of certain refrigerants

Prohibits a building code from limiting the use of a refrigerant that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated as an acceptable alternative

Wisconsin Environmental Equity Tool

Gov. Tony Evers announced the departments of Administration (DOA), Health Services (DHS), and Natural Resources (DNR), and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) are developing a comprehensive environmental and public health mapping system known as the Wisconsin Environmental Equity Tool which will analyze and visualize data online so users can pinpoint Wisconsin’s most impacted communities, identify the environmental challenges, and prioritize investments to continue building healthy, resilient communities.

Allows electric transmission facilities to be located in Wisconsin DOT's interstate and freeway rights-of-way, with specified exemptions.

Utility Accommodation Policy

The dashboard is designed to locate and compare public health and environmental impacts across the state to advance equity, allowing community members, government and elected officials, public health professionals and nonprofits to pinpoint Wisconsin’s communities most impacted by environmental, public health and climate vulnerability.