One blog post consolidates recent Foxconn air and water news

Here's a mini-archive focused on recent, fast-moving Foxconn-related air and water issues
 
consolidated from the continuously-updated "Foxconn Fever" post (now at 181 items):
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* WI AG Brad Schimel, GOP ally of Scott Walker and his 'chamber of commerce mentality'-driven DNR, will not protect SE Wisconsin from already-dirty air soon to be laden with another 796 tons of pollutants to be emitted by Foxconn - - so Illinois AG Lisa Madigan is stepping in with a federal lawsuit to do Schimel's work for him. And for us.

Foxconn-friendly EPA air regs for SE WI get IL lawsuit

* Walker may not know or care that he's earned a spot at an historic climate change crossroads, so here's the story.

Walker's Grey Skies win is one for record books' material

* Michigan legal activists urge Great Lakes states to take over review of Lake Michigan diversion for Foxconn which Walker's DNR hurriedly-approved. This is an effort to invoke the Great Lakes Compact. To save it.

MI group raises alarm, seeks wider review of Foxconn diversion

* Walker needs Foxconn to distract voters from his still-failed 250,000 new jobs promise. And if that means sacrificing clean air, clean Lake Michigan water, the integrity of the Great Lakes Compact, Racine-area wetlands and billions in public subsidies, so be it.

Walker wants Foxconn as distraction from his failed 250,000 new jobs promise

* Trump, Walker, DNR and US EPA coordinate to ensure that SE WI will not have strongest air quality standards, rule, enforcement. #MWSA.

Making Wisconsin smoggier again

*  US EPA exempts SE WI and thus Foxconn site, environs from stronger clean air rules. Big win for Walker, Foxconn, but not children, seniors, joggers, asthmatics, COPD sufferers, etc.

Pharmacies, RR/ICUs big winners in latest Walker Grey Skies push 

 * Multiple review and permit exemptions, easy air pollution approvals and a questionable Lake Michigan diversion hurriedly greenly by the DNR for the Foxconn project are part of the larger environmental damage Walker and the GOP have wrought statewide.

Walker's lazy, loose 'policy-making' is fouling Wisconsin land, air and water

* The other seven Great Lakes states have the right under the Compact to review the WI DNR's approval of a diversion for Foxconn. And history shows that other diversion approvals given additional reviews are improved.

The other Great Lakes states could review the Foxconn diversion

*  Wisconsin's DNR needs an updated, reality-based mission statement, given its obeisance to Foxconn and other special interests it reflexively serves through Scott Walker's 'chamber of commerce mentality.'

Walker's 'chamber of commerce mentality DNR needs a new mission statement

* Walker goosed along a quick Lake Michigan water diversion approval for Foxconn, but he may run into opposition from other Great Lakes states and supporters of the Wisconsin Constitution, Article IX.

The WI DNR adds quick approval of Foxconn diversion to quick approval of air pollution permits 

 * Yeah, says the DNR, no need to worry about Foxconn's intention to spew more than 700 tons of pollutants a year over Racine County. Next up: all that Lake Michigan water Foxconn wants, and says it will clean.

Foxconn's 4 air emission permits get quick WI DNR speed-dating 

*  Small City of Milwaukee research agency again unearths facts about a Lake Michigan diversion.

Milwaukee report exposes state's pathetic Foxconn diversion 'due diligence  

 * A blog reader suggests converting the 7-million-gallon-per-day Lake Michigan diversion for Foxconn and Mount Pleasant into daily tanker truckloads. It's a big, long line. 

Foxconn Lake Michigan diversion = 1,100 tanker trucks everyday in a 14-mile long line. 

 *  Illinois and New York are raising the same kind of questions which Wisconsin water activists aired at a recent hearing about the legality of Foxconn's bid for a Great Lakes diversion being pushed by Gov. Walker. His DNR gets to review and can approve the application - - unless the other Great Lakes states mount  substantial resistance.

Illinois, New York raise questions about Foxconn's bid for Lake Michigan water

*  Wisconsin pushed through the Great Lakes regional body a controversial Lake Michigan diversion for Waukesha, but the other states attached conditions due to Wisconsin's checkered environmental stewardship under Walker which could come back and bit the Foxconn diversion.

Awareness of Walker's poor water stewardship spreads to other Great Lakes states