...the out-of-state owner's troubled record operating another such operation, because - -

More on this permit, here.
Feel free to add this major, Kewaunee County-style CAFO's greenlight for a 5,800 dairy cow milking-and-manure operation 40 minutes from Madison
to these recent Walker/DNR pro-business, anti-environmental 'highlights,' here and here.
Sorry this week to have been distracted by the Lake Michigan water giveaway to Foxconn.
And by the way, maybe the DNR will update this 2014 web chart and page about CAFOs in Wisconsin last edited 45 months ago.
...the state doesn’t take a company’s pollution record into account when deciding on a permit for a new site.

More on this permit, here.
Feel free to add this major, Kewaunee County-style CAFO's greenlight for a 5,800 dairy cow milking-and-manure operation 40 minutes from Madison
to these recent Walker/DNR pro-business, anti-environmental 'highlights,' here and here.
Sorry this week to have been distracted by the Lake Michigan water giveaway to Foxconn.
And by the way, maybe the DNR will update this 2014 web chart and page about CAFOs in Wisconsin last edited 45 months ago.
Wisconsin CAFO WPDES permits by animal type over time