Wisconsin Environmentalists Campaign Against Amendments Altering Federal Grant Allocation

By Lydia Larsen

Environmental groups in Wisconsin are urging voters to reject two proposed amendments to the state constitution in the upcoming Aug. 13 primary. The measures, if approved, would remove the governor from the process of allocating certain federal funds and instead place control in the hands of the legislature. Members of Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature proposed the amendments in an attempt to rein in what they see as a series of oversteps by the state’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers.