Meet Cathy Stepp, the EPA leader now overseeing Minnesota and making environmentalists nervous


Meet Cathy Stepp, the EPA leader now overseeing Minnesota and making environmentalists nervous


When Cathy Stepp became head of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in 2010, Gov. Scott Walker said she`d bring a "Chamber of Commerce mentality" to the job.

By the time she left the DNR late last year, critics say Stepp, a home builder by trade, left Wisconsin`s DNR "in tatters" following a tenure that included declines in environmental enforcement actions, increased fees for state parks, cuts to the agency`s science personnel and two incidents of federal authorities intervening after manure from dairy farms began to contaminate drinking water in the northeastern part of the state.

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