Evers focus on science fits WI need, national narrative

Gov. Evers pledge to restore public policy science in Wisconsin - -  

The Milwaukee River raging through Shorewood's Estabrook Park last summer when heavy rains repeatedly flooded parts of Wisconsin. The state needs to better match education, hiring, and infrastructure planning and spending with known climate science that was systematically ignored by the defeated GOP Gov. Scott Walker.

- - fits nicely with this Washington Post checklist - - 

11 policy ideas to protect the planet

• Set local emissions goals
• Be smart about your air conditioner
• Encourage electric vehicles
• Be smart about nuclear power
• Make it easier to live without cars
• Prevent wasted food — the right way
• Incentivize carbon farming
• Curb the effects of meat and dairy
• Adopt a carbon tax
• Open electric markets to competition
• Pass a Green New Deal
• - - and also with a tweeted response from the noted environmental and science writer Andrew Revkin:
• @Revkin7h
• Nice list, but a *huge* gap. Revive America's investment in basic sciences underpinning nearly all of the goals here. We've been in a bipartisan slumber party on this investment for decades.

7 hours agoNice list, but a *huge* gap. Revive America's investment in basic sciences underpinning nearly all of the goals here. We've been in a bipartisan slumber party on this investment for decades