'Taconite' Tom wants to free WI mining; Walker seems OK w/it

The pro-mining GOP caucus in the Wisconsin Legislature now wants to get rid of the state's mining moratorium.

Read its leader's specious justifications and Gov. Walker shoulder-shrug, here.

More on this tomorrow.

Sidenote - - this is not the first time Walker and State Sen.Tom Tiffany have helped carry the mining lobby's water, and Tiffany played key roles in Walker's budgetary destruction of the DNR's science bureau and a failed effort to turn the DNR's policy oversight board into a purely advisory body.

Fewer scientists at the DNR which Walker is considering breaking apart, and get ready for exponentially greater groundwater withdrawals with pollution from mines, big animal feeding operations and other projects sought by Walker/GOP donors.
 

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