{"id":15570,"date":"2025-02-28T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15570"},"modified":"2025-02-28T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:59:06","slug":"wmc-sues-dnr-for-violating-clean-air-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15570","title":{"rendered":"WMC Sues DNR for Violating Clean Air Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-sues-dnr-for-violating-clean-air-act\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-sues-dnr-for-violating-clean-air-act\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MADISON<\/strong> \u2013 Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce (WMC) filed a lawsuit on Friday morning against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The lawsuit seeks to stop the DNR\u2019s illegal practice of regulating emissions from certain mobile sources of air pollution while those sources are manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>Air emissions come from two types of sources, stationary sources and mobile sources. The Clean Air Act allows state governments to regulate stationary sources, reserving for the federal government the power to regulate mobile sources. But Wisconsin\u2019s DNR, for roughly forty years, has controlled nonroad emissions from engines that are manufactured or assembled as part of another piece of equipment. These include engines found in lawn tractors, snowmobiles, generators, UTVs, and other similar machinery.<\/p>\n<p>In the lawsuit, WMC, represented by the WMC Litigation Center, argues that the DNR\u2019s regulation of these mobile sources is in violation of federal law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a new form of an old trick: using power not just to break the law but to obscure the violation with an air of authority,\u201d said Nathan Kane, WMC Litigation Center Deputy Director. \u201cIt\u2019s not right that manufacturers have to pay huge sums of money to comply with regulations that are contrary to federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DNR\u2019s illegal regulation puts Wisconsin manufacturers at a competitive disadvantage,\u201d added Scott Manley, WMC\u2019s Executive Vice President of Government Relations. \u201cManufacturers in many other states don\u2019t need to waste any time or money complying with regulations like these. Wisconsin\u2019s DNR is out of line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WMC represents the interests of roughly 3,800 employers from every sector of the state\u2019s economy. The WMC Litigation Center, an affiliate of WMC, represents clients in legal actions to foster and protect the free enterprise system, especially from unlawful government overreach.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wmclitigationcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WMC-v.-Hyun-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the complaint.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-sues-dnr-for-violating-clean-air-act\/\">WMC Sues DNR for Violating Clean Air Act<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-sues-dnr-for-violating-clean-air-act\/ MADISON \u2013 Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce (WMC) filed a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15571,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions\/15571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}