Faith in Place calls for an immediate pause on all permitting for hyperscale data center developments in Wisconsin, along with a moratorium on related legislation and regulation, until the public has adequate opportunity to understand and weigh in on these projects. Hyperscale data centers are being proposed and built across Wisconsin at an unprecedented pace. These massive facilities have far-reaching implications for our communities. They affect everything from energy consu

We have a win to celebrate—and a bigger fight ahead. The WIN! Thanks to thousands of rapid emails and calls, the House budget draft dropped the “nonprofit killer” that would have let the executive branch strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status with the stroke of a pen. That’s democracy in action! (Read about it here.) The Fight Ahead! This is still a very, very bad bill with disastrous consequences for the climate and for people who are hoping to upgrade their homes, cars

This week, the Congressional Ways and Means Committee quietly introduced alarming language (Section 112209) into a funding bill, posing a severe threat to democracy by targeting nonprofit organizations nationwide. This provision undermines the very foundations of our democratic freedoms by intimidating and silencing organizations that dare to speak truth to power and advocate for justice.