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File a comment on
Wisconsin Public Service Corporation's request to adjust electric and gas rates
Until October 31, 2019 Midnight

Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) Website
Docket 5-UR-109

​You may have recently received a notice from We Energies regarding your right to testify before the PSC about We Energies' proposed rate increases.  If you want to make your thoughts known to the PSC without appearing before the commission, please submit them electronically at:
​Docket 5-UR-109

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Join Us to Stand for a Livable Climate
Every Friday: ​next rally is Friday, July 19th 12 - 1 pm
CANCELLED
Zeidler Park​ across from We Energies
4th & Michigan, Milwaukee

We delivered 1,000+ Signatures Against a Solar "Tax" to We Energies on July 12th. (Press Release)

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RENEW Wisconsin released this announcement on July 15, 2019
We Energies and RENEW Wisconsin reach settlement on solar energy issue

We Energies and RENEW Wisconsin are pleased to announce a settlement agreement with two important provisions regarding solar energy and customer-owned generation.
 
With the agreement, We Energies will no longer pursue a solar fixed-cost recovery charge as part of its rate review with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, and RENEW Wisconsin agrees to support an upcoming We Energies utility-scale solar project. 
 
The two parties also agree to collaborate in a series of good-faith discussions for at least the next two years with the goal of finding potential areas of agreement on renewable energy and distributed generation as We Energies continues the transition to a clean energy future.

RENEW Wisconsin
214 North Hamilton Street Suite 300 | Madison, Wisconsin 53703
608-255-4044 | info@renewwisconsin.org

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Pressure Reaches Tipping Point After City of Milwaukee’s 100% Clean Energy Vote

We are continuing our weekly, 12 to 1 pm, Stand for a Livable Climate rally focused on We Energies’ policies on using fossil fuels, thwarting renewable energy and their inordinate balance of returns to investors vs fair cost to consumers.

In the past, we've had a delegation meet with We Energies designated executives and had a large march focused on them. Neither resulted in real progress.

WEC's (We Energies parent) president and CEO, Kevin Fletcher, has seen our protests and he's responded to a letter Julie Enslow delivered to the front desk at We Energies. Stay tuned.

We will be using the public sidewalk and we will not be disruptive nor impede their employees or passers-by in any way.

Our 350 banner and signs will be available for participants. We'll have flyers to distribute to interested passers-by who would like one. Please feel free to bring your own sign expressing your We Energies sentiments - especially We Energies' newly announced business and residential solar surcharge tax..

Toward the end of each rally, we will meet in Zeidler Park to plan for the next Stand for a Livable Climate phase for the following Friday. Stand for a Livable Climate is a continuing, nonviolent, direct-action campaign, inviting the media, to help educate the public and our representative government to affect We Energies policies.

​Join Us to Stand for a Livable Climate

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Are you up to date on We Energies 2019 Rate Requests?
(Or some reasons to join us on Fridays to Stand for a Livable Climate)

• We Energies renews push for controversial solar, fixed fees
• ​​ We Energies proposes a 5.9 percent increase in electric rates over two years
• Wisconsin utility wants to tax the sun 24%​
• Why Are We Paying We Energies $430 Million in Profits on a Coal Plant That Shut Down Last Year?
• Is We Energies Just Too Greedy?​
• One Group's Battle To Help Wisconsinites Keep Their Energy Bills Down Continues After 40 years

Now read this: Key Executive Compensation - WEC

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350 Milwaukee Meeting
Tuesday, August 13, 7-8:30pm
​at the Urban Ecology Center

We'll be discussing:

• Ideas (Play-in for Peace, etc.) and planning for the September 20 climate strike
• We Energies' Solar Surcharge Fee

And a discussion of your concerns and ideas!

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Friday, September 20, 2019
SAVE THE DATE!

If you’ve been inspired by the school strikers, but you’re not sure how you can take action as an ally, read on for 3 meaningful ways you can show your support:

1. Join the Global Climate Strikes
   School strikers are calling on everyone: young people, parents, workers, and all concerned citizens to join massive climate strikes and a week of actions starting on September 20.
2. Spread the word
   It’s as simple as it sounds. Talk to everyone you know – young or grown-up – about the climate strikes, about what they’ve achieved already; and our role in supporting young people.  Share with them your own reasons for wanting to see urgent climate action. Tell them about Greta’s message of climate emergency, or, even better,  show them one of her powerful speeches.
3. Organize your community
   Activate your own network (yes, you have one!) in support of the climate strikes. Think of the organizations, clubs or faith groups you belong to. Maybe you’re in a parents group, or a book club? Talk about the climate strikes at your next meeting; take to social media and share a public statement of support. Organize others for solidarity actions and events.

Read more at 350.org: How to stand with climate strikers

350 Milwaukee is organizing an action for September 20
​Keep watching this space

Sign up for our emails!

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Future Local Actions being explored:

1. "Putting Climate Front and Center in the 2020 Election” - organize to show up at candidate events with questions and signs
2. Local actions targeting banks that support the fossil fuel industry

​Do any of these interest you?
Let us know if you have ideas and/or want to get involved! 
Contact Julie Enslow or Greg Walter at our next meeting, or email: 350 Milwaukee

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Petitions

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Demand Governor Evers declare a Climate Emergency
Governor Evers must declare a climate emergency for the future of the planet and the State of Wisconsin. Wisconsin politicians need a wakeup call to the crisis that lies before us!

In association with the May 24 Student Strike

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Call on Chase Bank and CEO Jamie Dimon to divest from tar sands and all other dirty fossil fuels

This is a Rainforest Action Network Campaign

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 Support Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal

For the first time ever, someone in Congress has a plan that is ambitious enough to address the climate crisis.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing her fellow Democrats to create a Green New Deal – a plan to transform our economy and society at the scale needed to stop the climate crisis.
91 Representatives (only one - Mark Pocan - from Wisconsin) and 12 Senators (none from Wisconsin) have signed onto the Green New Deal resolution. Add your name now to help make sure the Green New Deal is on the agenda as Democrats take power in the House of Representatives.

Click here to read, and sign, the petition!

Green New Deal - Sunrise Movement - Website
The left must be bold and back a green new deal - The Guardian
The Green New Deal, explained - Vox
The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal - The Intercept

350 Milwaukee is a supporter of the Green New Deal!

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Tell BlackRock's CEO: Stop Funding the Climate Crisis
It’s time for BlackRock to put their money and power where their mouth is. Send a message now to CEO Larry Fink to be a true leader and stop investing in climate destruction!​
This is a Sierra Club Campaign

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Click here to help stop the oil pipeline that would go through Wisconsin

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In the News

Milwaukee Common Council Vote on Climate and Equity!
Tuesday, July 9, 9 - 11:30 am
​at Milwaukee City Hall

 Following the vote, there will be a Press Conference to celebrate.

The Milwaukee Common Council will vote on the resolution to commit to going to 100% carbon-free community-wide and creating a City-County Task Force on Climate and Economic Equity.

Read more and RSVP here

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Greta Thunberg Speech at Brilliant Minds conference in Stockholm
- June 13, 2019
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg urges wealthy people to stop stealing others' carbon budgets

Milwaukee Common Council Steering and Rules Committee approves a resolution regarding Climate Change -  June 27, 2019
The resolution creates a City-County Task Force on Climate and Economic Equity that will be “charged with making recommendations on how to reduce community-wide net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 45% by the year 2030 and achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, and mitigate racial and income inequity through green jobs” among other things.

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Can planting billions of trees save the planet?
- The Guardian, June 19, 2019
When Clare Dubois’s car skidded on an icy road in Stroud, Gloucestershire, a tree prevented her vehicle tumbling into a ravine. It was, she says, a sign. Humanity is nearing a precipice. Trees can stop us going over the edge.

Teen activists face US government in crucial hearing over climate trial
- The Guardian, June 4, 2019
The suit accuses the federal government of violating young people’s constitutional rights by contributing to the climate crisis

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Inside The Sunrise Movement: How Climate Activists Put The Green New Deal On The Map
- NBC News Video (11 Minutes, Share the link - especially with young people)
NBC just released this documentary short on Sunrise and it’s clear Americans are waking up to the need for ambitious climate action like the Green New Deal. Young people like us are putting it all on the line to defend our future, and we cannot stop now.

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Notes from a Remarkable Political Moment for Climate Change
- The New Yorker, May 1, 2019
​On Wednesday, the British House of Commons, led by the Conservative Party, voted to declare that the planet was in a “climate emergency.” The day before, a CNN poll found that, in the United States, Democratic voters care more about climate change than about any other issue in the upcoming Presidential election: more than health care, more than gun control, more than free college, more than impeaching the President. Having followed the issue closely since I wrote my first book about climate change, thirty years ago, I think I can say that we’re in a remarkable moment, when, after years of languishing, climate concern is suddenly and explosively rising to the top of the political agenda. Maybe, though not certainly, it is rising fast enough that we’ll get real action.

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“A Message from the Future with AOC”: New Film Imagines World Transformed by the Green New Deal
- Democracy Now, April 18, 2019
As the push for the Green New Deal builds momentum in the United States, The Intercept has released a short illustrated video imagining a future shaped by the progressive environmental movement. It’s titled “A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.” The New York congressmember narrates the film to envision an America that has been transformed by the Green New Deal policies, including a just transition of jobs, Medicare for all, and a total overhaul of the country’s energy system. The result is a vision of radical hope and transformation.

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It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change
 - NPR News
We're unleashing our imagination and exploring a dream, a possible future in which we're bringing global warming to a halt. It's a world in which greenhouse emissions have ended.

How to change the minds of climate deniers
​ - Grist via The Guardian
Recent polls have found the number of people who believe climate change is real has jumped. What convinced them?

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Teenage activist takes School Strikes 4 Climate Action to Davos
Listen here! - The Guardian
Protest by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg snowballs to last day of World Economic Forum

Full speech at the EU Parliament in Strasbourg - April 2019

How a 16-Year-Old Is Leading a Global Climate Movement
​ - Shown at the May 350 Milwaukee meeting

Read one of Greta's Facebook posts - 350 MKE Facebook

Watch Greta's TED Talk

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European colonization of Americas helped cause climate change
 - The Guardian
​Research finds killing of native people indirectly contributed to a colder period by causing deaths of around 56 million by 1600

10 Reasons to Feel Hopeful About Climate Change in 2019
​​ - Sierra Club
Humanity’s on the brink, but signs are emerging that we’ll pull back

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​JULIANA v. U.S. - CLIMATE LAWSUIT Updates
Our Children's Trust elevates the voice of youth to secure the legal right to a stable climate and healthy atmosphere for the benefit of all present and future generations. Through our programs, youth participate in advocacy, public education and civic engagement to ensure the viability of all natural systems in accordance with science.

Youth Call on the Colorado Supreme Court to Vacate Opinions After Court of Appeals Judge was Found to Have Racial Bias in Their Anti-Fracking Case
​ - January 24, 2019

​Our Children's Trust press releases are here

Climate Crisis
 - TED Radio Hour Podcast on NPR​, June 7, 2019
There's no greater threat to humanity than climate change. What can we do to stop the worst consequences? This hour, TED speakers explore how we can save our planet and whether we can do it in time.

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How Climate Change Threatens Humanity
 - Fresh Air Podcast on NPR​, April 15, 2019
​Bill McKibben, who first warned of climate change 30 years ago, says its effects are now upon us. He talks about heat waves, fires, flooding, drought, and, soon, millions of climate refugees. "The idea that anybody's going to be immune from this anywhere is untrue," he says.

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Bill McKibben: Green New Deal Is a Chance to “Remake Not Just a Broken Planet, But a Broken Society”
 - Democracy Now, April 15, 2019
​President Trump signed two executive orders last week to facilitate the approval of pipeline projects at a federal level, limiting states’ ability to regulate such projects. The move is intended in part to clear the way for permitting on the northeastern Constitution pipeline, which has stalled after New York invoked the Clean Water Act to reject the project on environmental grounds. We speak with Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org and the author of the new book “Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?”

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How Climate Change Became A Partisan Issue
 - Fresh Air Podcast on NPR​, April 8, 2019
​Journalist Nathaniel Rich talks about the missed opportunities in our recent history that could've halted or slowed climate change. Rich says that from 1979 until 1989, climate change was viewed as a bipartisan problem — then the the oil industry "descended and bared its fangs" and everything changed.

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To take on climate change, we need to change our vocabulary
​ - Grist via The Guardian
When we talk about saving the planet, we employ the narrative of war. Does it only deepen our divisions?

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Migration and climate change are deeply connected

350.org has released a 2 minute video where they help break down the connections between climate change and migration, this is one of the most important stories our movement needs to be telling right now.
Watch it and share!
There are also additional articles on climate change and migration

More on this subject: The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change - The Guardian

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Climate Change Is a Public Health Emergency
 - Scientific American
​Here are eight reasons why

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How to stop the climate crisis: six lessons from the campaign that saved the ozone - The Guardian
​Thirty years ago, all 197 countries got together to ban the gases damaging the Earth’s ozone layer. Now we need to unite to combat an even greater threat. What can we learn from 1989

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This is how your world could end - The Guardian
​In an extract from his book Ends of the World, Peter Brannen examines mass extinction events and the catastrophic outcome of rising temperatures for all the world’s population.

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WEC (We Energies) In the News

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Wisconsin regulators to review denial of Milwaukee solar project, decline to rule on legality of third-party financing - LaCrosse Tribune, May 2, 2019
Wisconsin regulators again declined to say Thursday whether companies other than monopoly utilities can own and operate rooftop solar panels but agreed to investigate whether the state’s largest utility can legally block a deal between one such company and the city of Milwaukee.

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County Board Votes In Opposition To We Energies' Mercury Discharge Request - WUWM, April 25, 2019
Thursday, the Milwaukee County Board made its voice heard by voting 16-0 against allowing We Energies' Oak Creek powerplant to raise its daily maximum discharge of mercury into Lake Michigan.

Wisconsin utility We Energies revives controversial push for solar charge - Energy News
Wisconsin utility We Energies is seeking to charge customers with solar $3.53 per kilowatt they generate, reviving a controversial 2014 effort that the utility describes as making sure customers with solar pay their “fair share” to keep up the grid.

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Revealed: air pollution may be damaging ‘every organ in the body’ - The Guardian, May 2019
Exclusive: Comprehensive analysis finds harm from head to toe, including dementia, heart and lung disease, fertility problems and reduced intelligence.

The Many Ads of We Energies
 - Urban Milwaukee
They’d rather spend on ads to make the company look good than lower your rates.

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​The Foxconn Solar Petition
During September and October the Clean Power Coalition-SEW gathered more than 600 signatures for a petition to We Energies and Foxconn. Perhaps you are one of the signers.
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​Read We Energies response here.

350 Milwaukee in the News

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​Coverage of 350 Milwaukee protesting Trump - Milwaukee Courier
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​350 Milwaukee's Keep it in the Ground Protest - Wisconsin Gazette

Larry Hoffman talking about solar power - Wisconsin Public Radio

George Martin talking about oil trains - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Julie Enlsow on the Paris Climate Agreement - Milwaukee Courier

Photo courtesy of the Overpass Light Brigade

​​350 Milwaukee
​350mke(at)gmail(dot)com
facebook.com/350Milwaukee

​4142 N. Newhall St.
​Shorewood, WI 53211

(414) 964-9478

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