GET ME REWRITE: All-male, all-white GOP leadership continues to drag its feet on PFAs

 

Photos:  Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin  Assembly

Left headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Right headline:  Wisconsin State Journal

From the State Journal:

The dry cleaner along with Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the state’s largest business group, sued the DNR in 2021. They argued the agency lacked any basis in state law or rules to impose such mandates. The DNR countered that it could unilaterally force testing because the Spills Law gives the agency broad authority to protect the environment. 

[snip] 

But Evers said in December the agency had to stop because compliance costs for industrial facilities and wastewater treatment plants that discharge to groundwater were projected at $33 million over the first two years the standards would be in effect. A Republican-authored state law requires state agencies to obtain legislative permission to continue working on regulations that could cost at least $10 million. So far lawmakers haven’t given the DNR the green light to continue.  [emphasis added]

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