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The Defender

Welcome to the Defender, Wisconsin's environmental podcast, where we talk about the most pressing environmental issues facing Wisconsin and how you can plug in to defend our air, water, land and climate. The Defender is hosted by former radio and TV journalist Amy Barrilleaux. She'll help cut through the jargon and all the misinformation that's out there and have real conversations about how to build a healthy, sustainable future. Every week, Amy talks with scientists, advocates, farmers, experts, and just everyday people who are working right here in Wisconsin to make a difference to protect this place we call home.

What's a Data Center Tariff and Why Should You Care?

31 mins; March 23, 2026

Meet The Teen Who Is Suing Wisconsin Over Climate Change

22 mins; March 16, 2026

Chaos Theory: Fighting the rapid fire attacks on our environment

20 mins; March 09, 2026

The Truth About Grassfed Beef

25 mins; March 02, 2026

How Superior WI Defeated a Gas Plant

27 mins; February 16, 2026

The Nuclear Option

25 mins; February 09, 2026

Why Wisconsin should be more like Texas!

37 mins; February 02, 2026

Why Help on Forever Chemicals is Taking… Forever

24 mins; January 26, 2026

What did the EPA just do?

30 mins; January 20, 2026

How Caledonia WI Defeated a Data Center

35 mins; January 12, 2026

What to know about PFAS pesticides

23 mins; December 15, 2025

Goodbye Grocery Store?

48 mins; December 08, 2025

Hey Tech Companies, Your Gas is Showing!

31 mins; November 24, 2025

Who's Really Paying for Data Centers?

29 mins; November 17, 2025

How to protect the planet by doing nothing

24 mins; November 10, 2025

Wisconsin's Forbidden Fruit

26 mins; October 06, 2025

Data Center Secrets

40 mins; September 22, 2025

The Climate March is Coming!

13 mins; September 15, 2025

150 Million Reasons to Listen to This Episode

26 mins; September 08, 2025

How much would you pay? Measuring the value of a clean environment

31 mins; August 25, 2025

Nothing to see here! Why the EPA says climate change won't hurt you

21 mins; August 18, 2025

Lambscaping! Why WI sheep farmers are excited about solar farms

27 mins; August 11, 2025

Move People, Not Oil

12 mins; August 04, 2025

WI Supreme Court delivers victory for science

30 mins; July 28, 2025

Latest on Line 5: The crude oil project that threatens northern Wisconsin

28 mins; July 21, 2025

Where Art Meets Environmental Justice: Inspiring a Movement in Milwaukee

25 mins; July 14, 2025

Ready for a REAL Energy Crisis?

24 mins; July 07, 2025

Cows, Tall Grass & Wind Turbines

24 mins; June 30, 2025

Exposure to Pesticides and Your Health

26 mins; June 16, 2025

The hidden pesticides that could be lurking in your pollinator garden

18 mins; June 09, 2025

Wisconsin's Class of 2025: The bright future of clean energy

15 mins; June 01, 2025

Meet Wisconsin's Conservation Dogs!

19 mins; May 19, 2025

Surprising environmental impacts of solar in Wisconsin

28 mins; May 12, 2025

The Truth about No Mow May

24 mins; May 05, 2025

Solar's Hype Girl: Meet the advocate convincing Wisconsinites to let the sunshine in

31 mins; April 28, 2025

The long list of Trump Administration attacks on our environment

22 mins; April 21, 2025

Feast or Famine: What's ahead for Wisconsin's weather?

36 mins; April 14, 2025

Microplastics are in our bodies: How much do they hurt us?

33 mins; April 07, 2025

Farmers for Solar

17 mins; March 31, 2025

Wisconsin's bees are acting weird. Here's why.

35 mins; March 24, 2025

From Grain to Glass: Why you should be drinking beer brewed with Kernza® grain

19 mins; March 17, 2025

How to defend climate progress in WI and beyond

39 mins; March 10, 2025

Our Salty Waters: Are you using too much road salt?

24 mins; March 03, 2025

Trump's Threat to Safe Water (and how WI can fight back)

38 mins; February 24, 2025

Leaded Skies: A small town's fight against leaded aviation fuel

21 mins; February 17, 2025

Opening the door to joy: One woman's journey to get fossil fuels out of her home

42 mins; February 10, 2025

Introducing the Defender

1 min; February 06, 2025

How to Eat for the Environment

24 mins; December 09, 2024

What Trump 2.0 means for our environment

34 mins; November 10, 2024

Neurotoxins On Our Plates

23 mins; October 13, 2024

A Case for Optimism: The energy transition we need, and what's standing in the way

23 mins; September 16, 2024

All the Money in the World: The cost of removing PFAS from our environment

21 mins; August 18, 2024

Supreme Court Power Grab

30 mins; July 08, 2024

Who Are the Science Moms?

18 mins; June 02, 2024

Three Cheers for Climate Beer!

16 mins; May 10, 2024

No Mow May: Does it work?

23 mins; April 27, 2024

Truth About Natural Gas

18 mins; March 08, 2024

Last Line of Defense: Battle over Wisconsin Gas Plant intensifies

19 mins; January 22, 2024

A Toast to 1939

18 mins; December 20, 2023

Health Harms of 'Forever Chemicals'

26 mins; November 14, 2023

Uncovering Air Pollution

23 mins; October 18, 2023

Wisconsin's Vanishing Bee

20 mins; September 19, 2023

Suppressing Solar? Alliant Energy, MG&E target home solar in rate plans

16 mins; September 05, 2023

Tainted Water: Dairy lobby sues Wisconsin over water protections

21 mins; August 24, 2023

Farming the Sun: WI Farmers Find a Lifeline in Solar

16 mins; July 30, 2023

The Disinformation Game

17 mins; June 12, 2023

Confronting a Clean Energy Backlash

20 mins; May 17, 2023

I'll drink to that! New Glarus Brewing Captures its Carbon

21 mins; April 21, 2023

Solar vs Corn for Ethanol: Which land use produces the most energy?

12 mins; March 13, 2023

Crisis of Contamination: Toxic PFAS in our Great Lakes

24 mins; January 23, 2023

Power to the People

14 mins; October 26, 2022

Kernza Crunch: The race to develop the world's first perennial grain crop

19 mins; August 31, 2022

Communicating climate change

30 mins; February 03, 2022

The importance of wetlands

23 mins; October 08, 2021

Extreme heat in urban Milwaukee

35 mins; August 25, 2021

Picking up the slack, a fight for clean water

25 mins; July 23, 2021

Ruling in favor: Clean Wisconsin wins cases against DNR

9 mins; July 08, 2021

Twists and Turns: State Supreme Court hears two Clean Wisconsin cases

34 mins; June 01, 2021

What happens now? An update on the state budget

11 mins; May 06, 2021

Electrifying transportation in Wisconsin

29 mins; May 05, 2021

Beer, wool socks and energy efficiency

24 mins; April 01, 2021

The toxic reality of PAH

35 mins; March 22, 2021

What's in the state budget?

27 mins; March 05, 2021

What does the Biden administration mean for climate action in Wisconsin?

26 mins; February 12, 2021

The vicious cycle of nitrate contamination

33 mins; February 06, 2021

Looking back, looking forward

17 mins; December 18, 2020

A very modest rule, delayed

18 mins; October 05, 2020

When the waters came

39 mins; August 20, 2020

Protecting our H.O.M.E.S.

28 mins; April 17, 2020

Not a drop to drink

25 mins; March 10, 2020

Nemadji

17 mins; February 24, 2020

Trailer: This is the Defender

44 secs; January 27, 2020

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