How arrogant, how uninformed, how dangerous are Donald Trump and his clutch of ideologues now with their grubby, greedy, selfish, oil-stained and pollution-smeared hands on the levers of power?
Consider that he is set to rollback efforts to protect wetlands from short-sighted fillings, but...
Even in Wisconsin where right-wing environmental destroyer Scott Walker began his first term with an order and subsequent bill to allow a donor-developer to sidestep a permit review and fill a wetland, even on the webpages of his 'chamber of commerce mentality'-driven Department of Natural Resources where climate science and education materials have been scrubbed or delete the agency is still quoting a wise, 1966 State Supreme Court ruling that noted that all the waters are interconnected, and when the chain is broken, the resource is gone forever:
Consider that he is set to rollback efforts to protect wetlands from short-sighted fillings, but...
Even in Wisconsin where right-wing environmental destroyer Scott Walker began his first term with an order and subsequent bill to allow a donor-developer to sidestep a permit review and fill a wetland, even on the webpages of his 'chamber of commerce mentality'-driven Department of Natural Resources where climate science and education materials have been scrubbed or delete the agency is still quoting a wise, 1966 State Supreme Court ruling that noted that all the waters are interconnected, and when the chain is broken, the resource is gone forever:
"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin State Supreme Court justices in their opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC.(2)
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| The impaired Little Plover River |
