Top headline: Scientific American, 6/17/2015
Excerpt from 2/4/2022 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article:
As a part of the new slate of officers, Greg Kazmierski [check out his list of mostly GOP campaign contributions here], an appointee of former Gov. Scott Walker, will serve as chair, with William Bruins as vice-chair and Bill Smith as secretary.
"The board has been — since the Walker administration — trying to get something done on this water thing," he said. "I think we're at the ninth hour right now, and maybe going to accomplish something as long as (the DNR) brings something forward that meets the scrutiny." [emphasis added]
Related reading:
Wisconsin Examiner, 8/12/2021
In previous years, DNR would have been able to move forward with these kinds of improvements to protect our drinking water, but industry lobbyists and the Legislature now have more power to stand in the way. Under a 2017 law signed by former Gov. Scott Walker, called the REINS Act, the legislature can block changes to regulations if compliance costs for regulated entities exceed $10 million over a two-year period. DNR estimates that the cost to the business community would be well below this threshold, while industry groups claim compliance costs could be in the billions of dollars. Thanks to the REINS Act, a committee of the Legislature called the Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules (or “JCRAR”), could stop the process in its tracks by adopting industry groups’ outlandish claims.
That was Scott Walker's 'water thing'.
Now it's time for Fred Prehn to leave.
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