Secretary Cathy Stepp leaving DNR to join Donald Trump's EPA

[riversedge]

Source: madison.com







STEVEN VERBURG [email protected] 8 hrs ago


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During Stepp's six-year tenure at DNR, fines for environmental violations dwindled, and the EPA twice stepped in to spur department action after residents complained of problems like manure-contaminated drinking water.

Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican who appointed Stepp six years ago to instill a "chamber of commerce mentality" in the agency, said she used common sense while protecting the environment.

"Of the seven DNR secretaries I have known, she clearly had the worst record in terms of standing up for protection of natural resources, whether it was water, air, or fish and wildlife," said George Meyer, a former DNR secretary who now directs the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation.

"Under Secretary Stepp's watch, public health and the rights of future generations
to clean and abundant water have been seriously eroded," said Kimberlee Wright, who directs Midwest Environmental Advocates, a public interest law firm that has mounted legal challenges to DNR pollution permitting.............................................
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The above article has lots of details about wreaking WI environment (she will be a good fit for Pruitt)

The article below has several embedded links.






Tuesday, August 29, 2017
WI env. wrecker, climate change denier gets big EPA job


https://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2017/08/wi-env-wrecker-climate-change-denier.html
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The Wisconsin DNR's proven wetland-filling, climate-change information-scrubbing and 'chamber of commerce' anti-environmental tool is bringing her Donald Trump worship and McDonald's store management skills to a senior regional EPA position.


Now an entire region- - including Missouri, where Stepp has a home in Branson - - is in the hands who of a far-rightwing bureaucrat who brought fear, poor morale and despair to the once-proud DNR.

Remember that Stepp, a home builder and former GOP State Senator, rose to the top of Walker's DNR selection list after she posted a ranting, mocking, partisan name-calling screed against the DNR:

Those of you that haven't had the pleasure of peeking behind the scenes of our state agencies like DNR, Health and Family Services, etc...need to know how some of the most far-reaching policies come down on our heads.

The most crushing/controversial rules that businesses have to follow in our state are--most times--done through the "rule making process" of our state agencies. Without bogging everyone down with some really boring procedure talk, suffice it to say that many of these great ideas (sarcasm) come from deep inside the agencies and tend to be reflections of that agency's culture.

For example, people who go to work for the DNR's land, waste, and water bureaus tend to be anti-development, anti-transportation, and pro-garter snakes, karner blue butterflies, etc...This is in their nature; their make-up and DNA. So, since they're unelected bureaucrats who have only their cubicle walls to bounce ideas off of, they tend to come up with some pretty outrageous stuff that those of us in the real world have to contend with.

Stepp cared so little for the environment in Wisconsin, and so little for the people her laissez-faire, shoulder-shrugging withdrawal of pollution science, inspections and enforcement that when manure-tainted brown water ran from rural kitchen taps she couldn't get one single bottle of fresh water delivered, as the DNR had promised, delivered into the heart of manure-overflow country...................



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Wisconsin DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp proudly shows off her first deer, taken opening weekend last year. In the upcoming TV Special "Deer Hunt Wisconsin 2012, Stepp urges male hunters to take more girls and women hunting. "The secret's out," she says. "Hunting is a lot of fun, so don't keep it to yourselves." photo courtesy of Wisconsin DNR

[sandensea]

1. Cheeto's paymasters must be getting impatient.

"Where's our fascist free-for-all, Donnie?"

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Hiring the best people

to throw a monkey wrench into the workings of government.

[wolfie001]

3. She's a corporate turd.........

........who's claim to fame is making it easier to develop wetlands. That kind of corporate immorality is just what Don the Con is looking for.

[Ellipsis]

4. I can't begin to tell you how fucked up that news is.

She is thou in some ways the perfect choice for this admin. They are going to open up mining and gut this state. She's done a great job of dismantling the bulk of science work and regulation done at the DNR to allow that to happen.

[Still In Wisconsin]

5. Well, she has overseen the annihilation of the Wisconsin Department of Natural resources, so she is

the perfect choice for the TRUMP administration.

[Dem_in_Nebr.]

6. DNR also stands for

Do Not Resuscitate

-- which is about right for her.