The wins keep piling up for Scott Walker's Gray Skies/Clogged Lungs Initiative.
Last week it was the DNR's rushed approvals for four air pollution permits to allow Foxconn to emit annually 796 tons of eye-watering, land-and-water contaminating smog and other airborne pollutants.
Today it's the US EPA approval at Walker's request to exempt much of SE Wisconsin from clean air standards that will apply to much of the state and country.
Walker's DNR has posted warning information about ozone as recently as April 26th, well that was then and this is now:
The dirtier air permissions for much of the Lake Michigan shoreline region is just what Walker needs to convince out-of-state residents to relocate to Wisconsin under what might called his 'Come For The TV Assembly Jobs, Stay for the Smog program.
Walker, AG Brad Schimel and the WMC have been after eased air pollution standards for years because reduced public information programming now more than seven years old and dirtier-air readings you can ignore moving 'forward' are said to be good for business.
So this is your lucky day if you sell eye drops and allergy medications, run clinics, ICU and ER facilities that treat asthma and cardio-vascular disease, or sell inside-play equipment that the kids can use when EveryDay is Ozone Action Day.
Last week it was the DNR's rushed approvals for four air pollution permits to allow Foxconn to emit annually 796 tons of eye-watering, land-and-water contaminating smog and other airborne pollutants.
Today it's the US EPA approval at Walker's request to exempt much of SE Wisconsin from clean air standards that will apply to much of the state and country.
Walker's DNR has posted warning information about ozone as recently as April 26th, well that was then and this is now:
Counties that do not meet federal clean air standards for ozone require businesses and residents in those areas to take special measures to reduce ground-level ozone.No doubt it helped having former WI DNR Secretary and principal Walker/'chamber of commerce mentality' water carrier Cathy Stepp as the Great Lakes EPA regional director.
The dirtier air permissions for much of the Lake Michigan shoreline region is just what Walker needs to convince out-of-state residents to relocate to Wisconsin under what might called his 'Come For The TV Assembly Jobs, Stay for the Smog program.
Walker, AG Brad Schimel and the WMC have been after eased air pollution standards for years because reduced public information programming now more than seven years old and dirtier-air readings you can ignore moving 'forward' are said to be good for business.
So this is your lucky day if you sell eye drops and allergy medications, run clinics, ICU and ER facilities that treat asthma and cardio-vascular disease, or sell inside-play equipment that the kids can use when EveryDay is Ozone Action Day.