State agencies defend budget priorities at Republican controlled Joint Finance Committee
Tuesday was the start of the Legislature’s review of Governor Evers’ proposed state budget.
Joint Finance Committee Co-Chair Howard Marklein says that Wisconsin will be receiving a massive influx of aid from the federal government, and that Republicans are keeping an eye on things.
“The total amount that a federal money that’s come into the state is huge and, in terms of us doing the budget for the next two years, that is something that we’re going to have to consider.”
Marklein says he’s unhappy with the size of Evers’ budget, and that it will dip into the state’s rainy day general fund balance.
Wisconsinâs largest business interest lobbying group has filed suit against the state Department of Natural Resources, asserting that state law doesnât allow the agency to carry out a program to sample wastewater at industrial and municipal sites for the âforever chemicalsâ known as PFAS.
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The lawsuit, filed Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court, seeks to block DNR from requiring that certain facilities, including some that are WMC members, allow testing of wastewater for PFAS, for which WMC states there are as yet no standards under state law. It also wants to bar making the results of those samples public.
April 1, 2021
MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General
Josh Kaul and Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Secretary
Preston Cole are reminding Wisconsinites of the tribal right to spearfish in certain Wisconsin waterways and the legal consequences they could face if found interfering with that right.
“Tribal members have the clear right to hunt, fish, and gather in the Ceded Territories, and attempts to interfere with that right are illegal,” said Attorney General Kaul. “If you are subject to or witness harassment of tribal members while they are exercising these rights, please call local law enforcement and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC).”
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