Stepp steps away from her 'environmental' work for Trump

1/8/20 update: Communication shared with this blog indicates that the replacement is Kurt Thiede. He was the office chief of staff and had been Stepp's Deputy when she was DNR Secretary, as I'd noted in 2018..
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 Bloomberg media is reporting that Scott Walker's infamous deer slayer 
 indicates that Kurt Thiede has been named Stepp's replacement. He was Stepp
and WI DNR 'chamber of commerce'-beholden DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp is abruptly leaving the second of two senior US EPA positions Trump gave her:

Administrator of EPA’s Midwestern Region Is Leaving Agency

The Bloomberg piece does say Stepp will be pursuing an opportunity in Missouri. Could be Branson as Branson and Stepp have made the news.

I'd collected in this post many of the low lights that Stepp brought to the DNR which Gov. Evers is trying to re-energize and rebuild.

Stepp did bring mockery and her signature corporate leanings to the US EPA, including; 

* Her fake nose caper.

* Her office's very troubling approval of mining permits which could threaten key Minnesota and Great Lakes forests and waters. 

Some of the issues in that matter are still being litigated.

Here is a good explanation of the issues.

Both mines would be located on the Iron Range in northeast Minnesota. The Twin Metals operation would be an underground mine on Birch Lake, just outside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness near Ely. 

PolyMet’s NorthMet project would be an open-pit mine on Wetlands about 15 miles south of Twin Metals, on the site of an old taconite mine near Babbitt. It is in the headwaters of the St. Louis River, the largest tributary to Lake Superior, upstream from Duluth and the Fond du Lac reservation.