Wisconsin DNR asks courts to toss challenge over permit for Monroe County frac operation


Wisconsin DNR asks courts to toss challenge over permit for Monroe County frac operation


The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking judges to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the agency’s authority to overrule another judge’s findings regarding a controversial Monroe County frac sand processing facility.

Last month Clean Wisconsin and the Ho-Chunk Nation filed suits in Monroe and Dane county courts claiming DNR Secretary Dan Meyer overstepped his authority when he agreed to review an administrative law judge’s ruling that had invalidated a permit issued to Meteor Timber for the proposed $75 million processing and loading facility....

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Ken Notes: We need to stop the huge swings in DNR policy and leadership. I wish I knew how to acomplish this but i don`t. The current election cycle will not help rearguards of the outcome. We have polarized environmental issues to the point that we are dysfunctional...

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