CNOW for Feb. 12, 2024
Today's conservation notices:
Support SB 58: Expanding Access to the Well Compensation Grant Program
Oppose SB 488: Entrenching Legislative Control Over Redistricting
Oppose SB 541: Selling Our Shoreline
Oppose AJR 6: Eliminating the Governor’s Ability to Spend Federal Dollars
Support SB 58: Expanding Access to the Well Compensation Grant Program
Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to support SB 58, which is before the Senate on Tuesday.
Every Wisconsinite deserves to know the water coming out of their tap is safe to drink. Nitrate contamination is the most common groundwater contaminant in Wisconsin and can lead to health effects including cancer, birth defects, and even infant death. SB 58 supports Wisconsinites facing nitrate contamination by making small but necessary improvements to eligibility requirements under the state’s Well Compensation Grant Program. These changes will allow more people to access funds that protect their well water from the dangers of nitrate contamination.
Oppose SB 488: Entrenching Legislative Control Over Redistricting
Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to oppose SB 488, which is before the Senate on Tuesday.
To protect our health and the health of our planet voters must choose their representatives, not the other way around. Partisan redistricting works against that basic freedom by creating non-competitive districts that allow politicians who should represent their constituents to ignore the will of local voters. SB 488 entrenches legislative control of our redistricting process, working against the goal of creating fair maps.
Oppose SB 541: Selling Our Shoreline
Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to oppose SB 541, which is before the Senate on Tuesday.
Under the Wisconsin Constitution, our waters belong to all of us. Public access to our shoreline is a right that must be protected into the future, for all people. SB 541 would violate our Public Trust Doctrine by permanently turning over our shoreline to private developers and allow them to restrict access.
Oppose AJR 6: Eliminating the Governor’s Ability to Spend Federal Dollars
Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to oppose AJR 6, which is before the Senate on Tuesday.
Wisconsin communities depend on the quick deployment of federal dollars to protect their drinking water, fund clean energy projects, and respond to extreme weather emergencies. AJR 6 would eliminate the governor’s ability to quickly distribute this federal funding.
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