- Environmental news now in our "Wisconsin Look" segment.
A bill that would loosen regulations for industrial wells
is making its way through the state legislature.
Members of the Assembly this week dropped a provision
expanding citizens' ability to sue owners of wells used for
industry or farming.
Conservationists link the large scale pumping of groundwater to
problems in lakes, streams and residential wells in certain
parts of the state.
The bill now matches its companion measure in the Senate
paving the way for the legislature to allow the
drilling of industrial wells without review by the state if
they replace existing, permitted wells.