WI mining lobby bulking up

The GOP may come out of the November elections in Wisconsin with less influence and control, but one corporate lobby is strengthening its bench and reach right now.

Look for changes to the political landscape, and the land and water, too.

The WI GOP/Walker/Legislative/bulldozer that is enabling wetland gouging, polluting waterways and systematically rolling back environmental rules and protections has added a powerful piece of political machinery promoting high-profile sand mining and potentially-toxifying metal-mining operations greenlit by Walker and the Legislature last year, as the Journal Sentinel's Lee Bergquist discloses Monday in a must-read-and-bookmark piece.

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