by Jon Drewsen | Apr 29, 2020 | legal action, Press Releases, Wetlands
WASHINGTON – A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the Trump administration’s unlawful move to gut protections for many of America’s streams and wetlands.The administration’s disingenuously named “Navigable Waters...
by Ezra Meyer | Jan 24, 2020 | Water, Wetlands
The Trump Administration announced it is rolling back protections in the Clean Water Rule advanced by the Obama Administration. Drinking water crises in parts of Wisconsin, such as in the City of Milwaukee and in Kewaunee County, and across the country, in places like...
by Jon Drewsen | May 6, 2019 | groundwater, high-capacity wells, legal action, Press Releases, Wetlands
You may have heard about some developments in our legal cases in the news last week. In case you haven’t, here’s what happened: On Tuesday, April 30, the DNR Secretary decided he would not reinstate a permit to allow out-of-state frac sand company Meteor Timber...
by Jon Drewsen | Jun 26, 2018 | legal action, Press Releases, Wetlands
Clean Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Monday in Dane County Circuit Court contending that the Secretary of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) overstepped his authority when granting a request that DNR review a judge’s ruling that invalidated a permit issued by...
by Jon Drewsen | May 16, 2018 | legal action, Press Releases, Wetlands
Clean Wisconsin made the following statement upon submitting a response to Meteor Timber’s petition for review by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Dan Meyer on the recently reversed wetland fill permit: “Meteor Timber’s request that the Secretary, a...
by Jon Drewsen | May 4, 2018 | legal action, Press Releases, Wetlands
Clean Wisconsin, along with the Ho-Chunk Nation through their representative Midwest Environmental Advocates, made the following statement after the Administrative Law Judge ruled to invalidate a permit issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to frac...
