Gov. Walker has signed Executive Order 69, which directs the DNR to expand its existing Green Tier program to meet both environmental and economic development goals. Green Tier is a voluntary program that recognizes and rewards businesses for environmental performance that exceeds legal requirements by granting them some regulatory flexibility.

The Foundation’s own Andrew Cook is running for the public interest position on the board of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Environmental Law Section.

Andrew Cook is an attorney with the Great Lakes Legal Foundation, a non-profit public interest law firm. Mr. Cook is also a consultant with the Hamilton Consulting Group, LLC. He received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire and his J.D. from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago (cum laude). He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and previously was a member of the Washington State Bar Association. In 2003, Mr. Cook began practicing environmental and land use law in Seattle, WA before moving to Madison, where he continues to practice in that area of the law. His favorite activity away from work is spending time with this wife and two kids (ages two and five) at the family’s cottage in northern Wisconsin, where they enjoy hiking and kayaking.

Ballots were mailed to members of the Environmental Law Section and must be returned to the State Bar by June 4, 2012.
 

Great Lakes Legal Foundation staff are currently working on a friend of the court brief in support of the petitioners in the Rock-Koshkonong Lake Dist. et al. v. DNR (2008AP1523) case on behalf of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and the Midwest Food Processors Association.

Al Armendariz, the EPA’s Regional Administrator for Region 6, has resigned amidst Congressional outcry over remarks that Armendariz made at a 2010 town hall comparing his enforcement strategy to the Roman practice of crucifixion.