My name is Pam Porter, Executive Director of Wisconsin s Environmental Decade. The Decade is the state s largest environmental organization with over 27,000 members and offices in Madison, Milwaukee and Appleton. We publicly recognize Rep s. Klug, Kind, Barrett, Kleczka and Johnson for their vote against the bill earlier this fall.
Takings is foolish public policy.
It puts America s health at risk by rolling back 25 years of bipartisan environmental progress. It shifts the financial, legal and moral burden of dealing with pollution from polluters to victims. It gives too much power to big developers and large scale extractive industries such as mining and agribusiness. Takings is an end run on land use conflicts. We think this is a bad idea and takes power away from local officials and residents.