“It’s bad,” said
Elizabeth Wheeler, senior attorney for Clean Wisconsin, which works to
protect the state’s air and water. “It’s a huge step backward for
groundwater protection compared to what we have now.”Wisconsin’s expert environmental officials lack broad authority to regulate high-capacity wells, Attorney General Brad Schimel said this week in a formal opinion.
Schimel said, in effect, that business interests must trump any negative impacts on the state’s water supply in making decisions about high-capacity wells...
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