[CPEO-BIF] "Some Wisconsin legislators want state law changed to prevent TCE apartment evacuations from happening again"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Some Wisconsin legislators want state law changed to prevent TCE apartment evacuations from happening again

By Sophia Vento and Yash Roy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
August 2, 2023

Developers at two Milwaukee-area apartments who failed to properly test and inform the state of environmental issues, exposing residents to high levels of a carcinogen and ultimately prompting city-ordered evacuations, technically didn't break the law.

Now, some state leaders are seeking to strengthen the state environmental agency’s oversight over developers.

Currently, the DNR can only recommend — not require — the clean-up of former industrial sites being developed into residential units. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2023/08/02/developers-of-evacuated-apartments-did-not-break-the-law-but-some-lawmakers-want-to-change-that/70465098007/


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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