OPINION: We`ll pay the piper for attacks on environment

The late great TV news anchor Walter Cronkite didn`t get it wrong many times during his career, but there was one incident that I have always remembered....

...We now live in a state where corporations are routinely awarded permits to sink high-capacity wells in areas where the water table has been dwindling for years, where homeowners` wells are contaminated with runoff from the proliferation of megafarms, where wetlands are being filled to accommodate an out-of-state frac sand mining corporation.

The harm being done to the state`s environment may not be all that noticeable now, but in years to come, all Wisconsin will pay the price.

Walter Cronkite would find it hard to believe.

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