Walker And Prosser Crushed Regulations On Koch Industry’s Phosphorus Pollution In Wisconsin

By Lee Fang, Think Progress

Posted on April 13, 2011, Printed on April 15, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/559634/walker_and_prosser_crushed_regulations_on_koch_industry%E2%80%99s_phosphorus_pollution_in_wisconsin

Shortly after helping to elect Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), Koch Industries opened a new lobbying office in Madison near the state capitol. However, little has been disclosed about the Koch lobbying agenda in Madison. The New York Times reported that Koch political operatives privately pressuredWalker to crush public employee unions. But Walker’s major payback to Koch relates to environmental deregulation.

ThinkProgress has learned that the Walker administration, along with state Supreme Court judge David Prosser, has quietly worked to allow Koch’s many Georgia Pacific paper plantsto pollute Wisconsin by pouring thousands of pounds of phosphorus into the water.