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Wisconsin Lawmakers Fail to Agree on Wetland Development Moratorium.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2001
By Dennis Chaptman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 21--MADISON, Wis.--Legislative agreement on a wetland development moratorium will wait until at least May, after the state Assembly passed a plan Tuesday that conflicts with a Senate-passed moratorium.
The GOP-controlled Assembly voted 70-27 to protect wetlands exposed to development by a U.S. Supreme Court decision by imposing a moratorium on development through July 1.
Democrats complained the gesture was hollow, and unsuccessfully urged passage of a bill passed by the Democratic Senate that slaps an indefinite moratorium on such development.
"This bill is as phony as a $3 bill, and is intended to protect political backsides -- not wetlands,"...
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