Youth climate activists in Wisconsin are suing the state’s Public Service Commission over state laws that they say perpetuate a fossil fuel-dominated electricity sector and undermine renewable energy, thereby exacerbating the climate crisis, which is already inflicting harmful impacts across the state.

The filing comes less than two weeks after catastrophic flooding from severe storms ravaged southeast Wisconsin, damaging properties and disrupting the state fair in what the Wisconsin State Climatology Office says was the worst flash flooding event in the region since 2008.

This type of extreme precipitation and flooding is becoming more frequent as the climate warms, driven primarily by greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion, yet Wisconsin law prohibits the state’s electric

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