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Environmental groups challenge 2011 law limiting state DNR’s rules to protect groundwater. //end headline wrapper ?>Wisconsin Supreme Court. Photo by Dave Reid.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a pair of cases that could decide whether state environmental regulators have the authority to place limits on farming in Wisconsin to protect groundwater.
In the first case, environmental group Clean Wisconsin and Kewaunee County residents contested the DNR’s approval of a wastewater discharge permit as part of Kinnard Farms’ request to expand its concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) by adding a second site and more than 3,000 dairy cows.
Helpful tips to stretch your stimulus
Host of the Natives on a budget podcast Shawn Spruce is on the show to help you balance your books and save for the powwow trail. Plus national correspondent Mary Annette Pember gives us more details behind two stories she s covered from Indian Country.
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Apr 5, 2021
Having a budget may have proven difficult during this pandemic, Joining us today to talk about money matters is Shawn Spruce who is Laguna Pueblo. He’s a financial education consultant and has a podcast called, “Natives on a budget.”
And parents say their Native students are facing discrimination in the Ashland School District in northern Wisconsin. Plus Another tribe and another fight against mining. National correspondent Mary Annette Pember will give you details about both stories out now on our website.
Fond du Lac Band wins halt to copper mine
Tribe asserts rights as a sovereign state under the Clean Water Act to challenge proposed PolyMet mining operations
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Apr 5, 2021
A former iron ore processing plant near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota, shown here on Feb. 10, 2016, would become part of a proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine. The Fond du Lac Band is fighting the mine in court, saying it would pollute the waterways. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Tribe asserts rights as a sovereign state under the Clean Water Act to challenge proposed PolyMet mining operations
Mary Annette Pember
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is breaking new ground in its fight against a planned $1 billion PolyMet copper mine in northern Minnesota.
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• Harry Reid: Media critic
• Lew dodges on ObamaCare
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TEN MORE DAYS OF CLIFF DIVING – President Obama is standing by his refusal to negotiate over the ongoing partial government shutdown and the looming debt-limit bust, so House Speaker
John Boehner and Treasury Secretary
Jack Lew took their talks on the fiscal crisis to the airwaves in dueling Sunday show appearances. The conclusions: The partial shutdown is bound to last for at least another 10 days and the stakes are growing by the hour as Americans come to believe Obama is serious about not budging. Boehner and House Republicans are unified behind a pressure play: They keep passing bills to provide funding for popular programs and Democrats’ sacred cows, particularly retroactive pay guarantees to government workers. If Obama remains aloof from the process, things are going to get very dicey on Wall Street and Main Street. To wit: Markets were already hitting the skids thi