Today the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that a statute allowing the legislative Joint Committee on Finance (JCF) to block Knowles-Nelson Stewardship projects violates the Wisconsin constitution.
“This standard limits the amount of mercury, heavy metals, hydrochloric acid and other toxic pollutants that power plants are allowed to release into our environment, and there is no question we need those limits to be as strong as possible.”
Enbridge’s pipeline disaster record includes the Kalamazoo River spill in 2010, the largest inland oil spill in US history.
“Holding the public hearing now, before the Army Corps has all the information it needs to fully assess the risks to our wetlands and waterways, is premature and unfairly deprives the public of a meaningful opportunity to participate in the process,” said Brett Korte, staff attorney with Clean Wisconsin.
New EPA standards will slash carbon, coal ash, mercury, contaminated wastewater and other toxic pollution from power plants
About 355,000 Wisconsinites are served by systems that do not meet the new EPA standards for PFAS.
“This bill puts the burden of PFAS cleanup on Wisconsin taxpayers instead of polluters. It isn’t fair, and it doesn’t reflect the values of our state,” says Clean Wisconsin Water and Agriculture Program Director Sara Walling.
“It’s important for people to understand these cases are not happening in a vacuum. They’re happening one after another on the Federal level and state level all across the country.”
The legislature’s PFAS bill would result in PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ being treated differently than other hazardous substances under Wisconsin’s Spill’s Law.
Stronger soot pollution limits are expected to prevent 40 premature deaths in Wisconsin every year.
