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Evers creates new office of environmental justice
Gov. Tony Evers on Friday signed an executive order creating a new office of environmental justice, announcing the move on Earth Day.
Wisconsin judge: DNR lacks authority to regulate PFAS
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin regulators lack the inherent authority to require businesses to clean up contamination from PFAS chemicals and other toxic contaminants because legislators haven’t established any restrictions on the substances, a judge ruled Tuesday. Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren’s sweeping decision marks a major defeat [...]
Kenosha co. fined 49K for violating environmental laws
A Kenosha company was ordered Tuesday to pay nearly $49,000 in fines and court costs for violating state environmental laws, according to a news release from the state attorney general’s office.
Environmental group sues over ballast rules
The National Wildlife Federation sued New York state officials on Thursday for backing off on tough regulations to rid ship ballast water of invasive species that threaten the Great Lakes, the Hudson River and Long Island Sound.
State settles Milwaukee County environmental case
Wauwatosa resident Ronald Collision will pay $2,000 for violations regarding the maintenance of underground gasoline and dry cleaning storage tanks, according to a news release from Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's office.
Court confirms owner must pay to have sunken barge removed
Saying the owner of a sunken barge in Milwaukee was a “textbook example of a litigant playing fast and loose with the judicial system,” an appellate court judge Tuesday upheld more than $37,000 in environmental penalties. The case stems from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s seizure of a riverfront property at 260 N. 12th St. […]
08-3951 Montgomery v. American Airlines, Inc.
Employment Hostile work environment Where an employee never complained of a hostile work environment, summary judgment was properly granted on his claim against the employer. “Employers need not divine complaints from the ether, guessing at the subjective suspicions of employees. An aggrieved employee must at least report-clearly and directly-nonobvious policy violations troubling him so tha[...]
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- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
- Wisconsin prison inmate pleads not guilty to killing cellmate
- Waukesha man sentenced to 30 years for Sex Trafficking
- 12-year-old shot in Milwaukee Wednesday with ‘serious injuries’
- Milwaukee man convicted of laundering proceeds of business email compromise fraud schemes
- Giuliani, Meadows among 18 indicted in Arizona fake electors case
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
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