Walker's 8-year-war on Wisconsin's environment: Part 1, wetlands.
This 21-part retrospective series I'd promised will run with daily updates, ending prior to the Nov. 6 election. This is Part 1, reposted from Walker's second day in office.
* January 4, 2011:
* January 4, 2011:
Right on schedule, Walker wants certain wetlands protections eliminated
I had been calling Scott Walker's radical environmental approach the Cut It, Gut It, Pave it, Fill It plan.
[Update: Walker has signed a special wetland-filling bill for one of his donors after he'd already suspended the DNR's permit review which had held up the development.]
Take a look at Item #6 [below] of Walker's Special Session directive to the Legislature in Executive Order #1, as it will impact 1.6 million acres protected of non-federal wetlands, or 30% of the wetlands in Wisconsin.
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