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.

This week the United States Supreme Court overturned a Montana Supreme Court ruling that prohibited state funding from going to religious schools via a scholarship fund. Besides its substantive constitutional issues, the case demonstrates the procedural interplay between administrative agencies, state constitutions, and the federal Supreme Court.

On June 18, the United States Supreme Court released its opinion in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, which held that the Trump Administrations attempt to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was arbitrary and capricious, and therefore failed.

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.

DNR announced on June 2nd that it intends  to revise its high capacity well review process in response to Wisconsin Attorney […]

 GLLF filed an amicus brief and supporting appendix  in Wisconsin Legislature v. Palm with the Wisconsin Supreme Court on behalf of Wisconsin Manufactures & […]