WMC hands another environmental award to another WI polluter

The WMC group did it before for Menard's despite the company's polluting history, so it's no surprise that a well-connected Big Ag group which siphons off a lot of groundwater near the threatened Little Plover River 

would also get - - from a committee again including a DNR rep - -  the WMC's environmental honor.

An industry group that helped spearhead a state law that loosened state oversight and regulation of controversial high-capacity wells has received an environmental award from Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC).

The Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association and eight companies received WMC’s Business Friend of the Environment Award earlier this month.

Update:  A commenter reminds me that the group in 2014 got its leader appointed to the state's groundwater advisory council, replacing George Kraft, a noted UW-Stevens Point water scientist. I'd written about that, here. 

Wisconsin has a statutorily-created groundwater coordination council; Scott Walker has just replaced the council Governor's representative - - UW-Stevens Point professor and water expert George Kraft - - with Stephen Diercks, a potato grower, according to this industry report.

A frequent contributor principally to GOP candidates, Diercks has donated $4,450 to Walker's campaigns since 2009, including $1,500 on June 30, records show.

The 'award' is par for the course in a state where Walker directed the DNR to work with a "chamber of Commerce mentality," and also similarly from Trump through his corporatized, corrupted EPA, Interior Department, etc. 

It's as much a poke in the eye to Wisconsin environmentalists than it is a door prize for the winner.

They'll have to retire the award if when Foxconn wins - - a shoe-in given the WMC's help - - despite, or because of,  Foxconn's wetland-filling, farm-field bulldozing, clean-air contaminating, Lake Michigan-water-diverting, record-subsidy-setting deal in Racine County.