WMC threatens lawsuit over DNR’s proposed surface water pollution regulations
Chippewa Flowage near Hayward, Wisconsin. Photo by David Wise, July 2015.
The state’s largest business group is threatening to go to court to block regulations that would force stricter limits on surface water pollution.
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce says it may take legal action if DNR doesn’t address it and other groups’ charge that the regulations’ costs exceed what is permitted under state law — by more than $50 million over two years.
“If the DNR cho...
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