Wisconsin Environmentalist: We Are Going Downhill

MADISON, Wis. - Looking back at 2015, the executive director of the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters, Kerry Schumann, says it was a bad year for the state's environment. In her view, the Legislature has allowed too many special-interest groups to shape Wisconsin's laws and environmental institutions.

She points to legislation that weakened groundwater protections in the state, and to a move which cut hundreds of scientists from the ranks of the state Department of Natural Resources. She says the state is moving in the wrong direction.

"There have been so many attacks on the environment this year that I would say we're worse off, and we've been going downhill, frankly, for the last five years," she says. "And at some point we need to stop this downhill slide or it's going to really start to impact people directly where they live."...   ...more

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