Public Comments on Wisconsin's Mercury Rule Revision

2008 Rule Hearings

• Written comments and comments received at the public hearing held April 7, 2008

2007 Rule Hearings

This page contains: 1) links to both written public comments and comments received at the public hearings on the state's mercury rule revisions; and 2) a table summarizing the comments. The comments posted are all from stakeholder organizations. The deadline for written comments was June 11, 2007. The public hearings were held in Green Bay, Stevens Point, Eau Claire, Madison and Milwaukee between May 15 and May 24, 2007.

Organization Comments Summary Table

Organization public comment summary for AM-32-05, written comments and public hearing statements [PDF 63KB]

Written Comments

• Atmospheric and Environment Research (AER) [PDF 459KB]
• AER attachment on mercury deposition, 2007 report [PDF 2060KB]
• Charter Steel [PDF 65KB]
• Clean Wisconsin and Sierra Club [PDF 49KB]
  • Clean Wisconsin attachment [PDF 477KB]
• Dairyland Power Cooperative [PDF 864KB]
• DPC attachment 1 - AER Wisconsin mercury deposition study June 2002 [PDF 950KB]
• DPC attachment 2 - AER Wisconsin mercury deposition study June 2007 [PDF 2060KB]
• DPC attachment 3 - Electric Power Reseach Institute Levin U.S. Senate testimony [PDF 217KB]
• DPC attachment 4 - Center for Energy and Economic Development study [PDF 604KB]
• Dairyland Power Cooperative/Wisconsin Utilities Association supplemental comments [PDF 100KB]
• Edison Electric Institute [PDF 455KB]
• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) [PDF 51KB]
• EPRI attachment 1 - Leonard Levin Senate testimony [PDF 212KB]
• EPRI attachment 2 - Issue brief 1014500 [PDF 34KB]
• EPRI attachment 3 - Issue brief 1014496 [PDF 30KB]
• EPRI attachment 4 - Issue brief 1014451 [PDF 33KB]
• EPRI attachment 5 - Issue brief 1014428 [PDF 37KB]
• EPRI attachment 6 - Issue brief 1014498 [PDF 39KB]
• EPRI attachment 7 - Issue brief 1014438 [PDF 208KB]
• Forest County Potawatomi [PDF 568KB]
• Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers [PDF 232KB]
• Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission [PDF 68KB]
• Izaak Walton League [PDF 16KB]
• Madison Gas & Electric [PDF 214KB]
• Manitowoc Public Utilities [PDF 44KB]
• Midwest Food Processors Association [PDF 96KB]
• Plumbers & Steamfitters Union Local 400 [PDF 90KB]
• WE Energies [PDF 94KB]
• Wisconsin Environment [PDF 145KB]
• Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group [PDF 1731KB]
• Wisconsin Interfaith Climate & Energy Campaign Inc. [PDF 121KB]
• Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce [PDF 1399KB]
• Wisconsin Paper Council [PDF 40KB]
• Wisconsin Power & Light [PDF 2341KB]
• Wisconsin Public Power [PDF 197KB]
• Wisconsin Public Service Corporation [PDF 38KB]
• Wisconsin State Council of Carpenters [PDF 53KB]

Comments submitted at the public hearing

• Green Bay Electrical Workers [PDF 64KB]
• Integrys Energy Group [PDF 138KB]
• League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Rapids [PDF 58KB]
• Madison Gas & Electric [PDF 89KB]
• Metro Milwaukee Association of Commerce [PDF 68KB]
• Northeast Wisonsin Building & Construction Trades Council [PDF 80KB]
• Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives [PDF 131KB]
• Wisconsin Power & Light [PDF 124KB]
• Wisconsin Sierra Club [PDF 126KB]
• Wisconsin Utilities Association [PDF 91KB]
• Wisconsin Utility Investors [PDF 14KB]
• Wisconsin Wildlife Federation [PDF 119KB]
• Xcel Energy [PDF 145KB]

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