Another break for Foxconn? EPA office led by Gov. Walker's former aide to decide smog pollution rul

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Source: chicagoTribune

Feb 28, 2018

Armed with years of air quality testing and other evidence, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tentatively concluded late last year that most of southeast Wisconsin needs to take more aggressive action to reduce lung-damaging smog.

The decision infuriated Gov. Scott Walker, a former Republican presidential candidate who had wooed Foxconn Technology Group to Racine County a few months earlier with $3 billion in financial incentives, promises to relax state environmental laws and access to Lake Michigan water for a sprawling new electronics factory, just north of the Illinois border in an area with some of the state’s dirtiest air.

Walker and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources blame Chicago for making the air unhealthy to breathe in parts of the state. “Wisconsin is not the issue,” a Walker spokeswoman said. But an EPA analysis of industrial pollution, traffic patterns and weather shows Wisconsin is at least partially responsible for its own smog problems.

Within the next three months, the same regional EPA office that prepared the Wisconsin analysis will make a final decision about how much — or how little — Foxconn and other companies must do to curb smog-forming pollution. Only now the Chicago-based office is led by Cathy Stepp, a former top aide to Walker who spent the past three years urging EPA officials to exempt Wisconsin from the smog regulations.
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Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-foxconn-air-pollution-20180208-story.html

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Walker has his stooge right where he put her.


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Another break for Foxconn? EPA office led by Gov. Walker's former aide to decide smog pollution rules






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Cathy Stepp, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, speaks in her Madison, Wis., office on Jan. 13, 2017. Stepp is now in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency region that oversees Illinois and five other states. (M.P. King/Wisconsin State Journal)

Cathy Stepp

Walker once said he chose Stepp to lead the Natural Resources Department because she has a “chamber of commerce mentality.” During her six-year tenure at the state agency, Stepp rolled back enforcement of environmental laws, cut funding for scientific research and scrubbed references to human-caused climate change from the department’s website...

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[JDC]

1. Next, forced work hours, and separated spouses.

Suicides also on the Foxxcon of WI docket.

[turbinetree]

2. Hey Stepp, did you see what happens when a democrat beat one of your cronies there in Wisconsin

and your boss that serial asshole flipped out, and shows just how fucking unstable he really is.

Now, he isn't calling any special elections, low life dirt bag, that fucking little Koch dictator enabler is a fucking asshole, at least a former lawyer, and a former US AG ( Eric Holder) and pretty good one is going to and has filed a lawsuit against your fucking boss.

Well, guess what Stepp, this coming November your governor is going to see how political ..............corruption is still fucking corruption and people are pissed off and I really have a funny feeling that someone down wind of your state is going to file a lawsuit, because they don't want the dirty air thing called smog, you do understand that smog does kill human beings if they health problems.

And just for added fun..................

Look no further than in Janesville, your fucking Paul "ayn rand" Ryan is going to lose his seat and the students are going to March into Janesville to let him know about how he has fucking blood on his hands from the NRA, just like Walker:

https://www.thenation.com/article/scott-walker-goes-all-nraalec-shoot-first-agenda/


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough