Environmental exemptions that would clear the way for a Georgia company to build a $70 million frac sand processing plant in western Wisconsin that environmentalists oppose hit a snag Wednesday in the state Senate. … Opponents to the project allege that Meteor is...
Former Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees are questioning the agency’s decision to allow a Georgia company to fill rare wetlands for a frac sand processing facility in Monroe County. …The Natural Resources Development Association, a nonprofit lobbying...
The state Department of Natural Resource’s former top lawyer on water issues will tell lawmakers Wednesday that a late-night measure passed by the Assembly favoring a planned industrial facility would likely create environmental problems and “trample” on the right of...
One of the authors of mining legislation signed by the governor this week believes it will could lead to a revival of the industry in Wisconsin. The bill signed by Governor Scott Walker on Monday effectively ended Wisconsin’s moratorium on sulfide mining – a process...
Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill lifting Wisconsin’s moratorium on gold and silver mining. Gov. Walker voted to impose the moratorium when he was in the state Assembly in 1998. He signed the Republican legislation Monday anyway. His spokesman, Tom Evenson, has said...
Gov. Scott Walker signed a measure Monday clearing the way for mining copper and gold in Wisconsin, handing a win to business groups over the proposal’s environmental opponents. In signing Assembly Bill 499 at the Rhinelander airport, the Republican governor repealed...