Madison-based Clean Wisconsin is suing to force a reversal by Scott Walker's 'chamber of commerce mentality' Department of Natural Resources' approvals of nine permits allowing big agricultural operations to withdraw large volumes of groundwater without taking into account the withdrawals' cumulative environmental impacts.
This is yet another example of a non-profit Wisconsin environmental group taking the lead in environmental protection because Walker's corporately-directed DNR, the GOP-run Attorney General's office, GOP-led Legislature and the GOP-obesiant State Supreme Court have given up their conservation preservation obligations so that big ag, large feedlots and other special interest can freer access to the state overtaxed waters - -
- - and easier pollution inspections to prevent problems or resolve them when they arise.
The suits are a good sign that citizens are not going to accept the one-sided and dirty hand this administration is handing them - - another example is the strong citizen opposition to the proposed Kohler golf course along Lake Michigan and on a nature preserve for which the DNR already has a thumb on the regulatory scales - - but it's wrong that the state can default its clean air and water obligations which forces people to spend money from their own pockets to do the state's proper job.
This is yet another example of a non-profit Wisconsin environmental group taking the lead in environmental protection because Walker's corporately-directed DNR, the GOP-run Attorney General's office, GOP-led Legislature and the GOP-obesiant State Supreme Court have given up their conservation preservation obligations so that big ag, large feedlots and other special interest can freer access to the state overtaxed waters - -
- - and easier pollution inspections to prevent problems or resolve them when they arise.
The suits are a good sign that citizens are not going to accept the one-sided and dirty hand this administration is handing them - - another example is the strong citizen opposition to the proposed Kohler golf course along Lake Michigan and on a nature preserve for which the DNR already has a thumb on the regulatory scales - - but it's wrong that the state can default its clean air and water obligations which forces people to spend money from their own pockets to do the state's proper job.