Post by Logan on Feb 10, 2016 5:26:39 GMT -6
Bills rolling back environmental safeguards passes Assembly
The state Assembly’s Republican majority on Tuesday passed bills including a rollback of lake and wetland protections, new constraints on local power to control pollution and a fundamental change in the way judges handle environmental lawsuits.
Authors of Assembly Bills 600 and 582 said they were long-overdue measures that would restore and expand rights of private property owners. Lawmakers approved Assembly Bill 600 57-39 and Assembly Bill 582 56-39.
AB 600 was aimed at curtailing government authority to regulate lakefront landowners and developers who want to build on wetlands.
The bill loosens limits on dredging shoreline areas, requires the state to classify less lake acreage as sensitive, and mandates shoreline lakebed be deeded to property owners in places where fill material was dumped to push back the water’s edge before 1975, even if it was done illegally.
Read more: host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/environment/bills-rolling-back-environmental-safeguards-passes-assembly/article_4a9a2fd9-ec8a-5199-b8db-216d50f11f14.html
The state Assembly’s Republican majority on Tuesday passed bills including a rollback of lake and wetland protections, new constraints on local power to control pollution and a fundamental change in the way judges handle environmental lawsuits.
Authors of Assembly Bills 600 and 582 said they were long-overdue measures that would restore and expand rights of private property owners. Lawmakers approved Assembly Bill 600 57-39 and Assembly Bill 582 56-39.
AB 600 was aimed at curtailing government authority to regulate lakefront landowners and developers who want to build on wetlands.
The bill loosens limits on dredging shoreline areas, requires the state to classify less lake acreage as sensitive, and mandates shoreline lakebed be deeded to property owners in places where fill material was dumped to push back the water’s edge before 1975, even if it was done illegally.
Read more: host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/environment/bills-rolling-back-environmental-safeguards-passes-assembly/article_4a9a2fd9-ec8a-5199-b8db-216d50f11f14.html