Today, Inside Track, the Wisconsin Bar’s newsletter, published an article by our very own Amy Buchmeyer.

Over a year after hearing oral arguments, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued its 144 page, 2-majority opinion in SEIU v. Vos. The much anticipated decision involves an on its face challenge 2017 Wis. Act 369 and 2017 Wis. Act 370, otherwise known as the lame-duck session laws.

GLLF submitted comments on DNR’s proposed guidance for high capacity well application review process, arguing it ignored the ongoing litigation in Clean Wisconsin v. DNR on this very issue, overstepped the boundaries of DNR’s explicit authority, and at minimum needed to go through rulemaking.

DNR moves to issue its new high capacity well application review process as guidance, a procedure that does not provide nearly the same protections as rulemaking.