You won't find a better example of what's corrupted Wisconsin's political environment - - big business' capture of the process, a compliant, scandously-gerrymandered, one-party GOP-led legislature and open contempt for science across the government at the expense of clean water and healthy wildlife - - than the Assembly's intention to open about a million acres of wetlands to builders while simultaneously cutting back compensatory wetlands' repair in the name of strengthening the bill.
A thoughtless abandonment of public policy, legacy, law and commonsense echoing the state's unprecedented permission for the grotesquely-subsidized Foxconn development to fill wetlands, reroute streams, build on lake beds without environmental impact review or permits.
In a flood-prone region.
Careless arrogance matched by Trump toadies at the federal level, where an administration also hostile to science and obeisant to corporate influence is busy removing decades of protections for land and water which are in the public domain and which also keep the water, land and air accessible and clean.
All of which makes the 2018 elections - - from Congressional seats to local contests - - crisis-level matters of public health.
A thoughtless abandonment of public policy, legacy, law and commonsense echoing the state's unprecedented permission for the grotesquely-subsidized Foxconn development to fill wetlands, reroute streams, build on lake beds without environmental impact review or permits.
In a flood-prone region.
Careless arrogance matched by Trump toadies at the federal level, where an administration also hostile to science and obeisant to corporate influence is busy removing decades of protections for land and water which are in the public domain and which also keep the water, land and air accessible and clean.
All of which makes the 2018 elections - - from Congressional seats to local contests - - crisis-level matters of public health.