{"id":7230,"date":"2015-04-11T06:48:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T11:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2015-04-11T06:48:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T11:48:06","slug":"wisconsin-climate-change-gag-order-part-of-broader-industry-tied-attacks-on-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7230","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Climate Change Gag Order Part of Broader Industry-Tied Attacks on Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wisconsin Climate Change Gag Order Part of Broader Industry-Tied Attacks on Science<\/a><\/h3>\n

On April 7,\u00a0Wisconsin’s Board of Commissioners of Public Lands<\/a>\u00a0voted 2-1 to\u00a0ban those employed by the agency from doing any work pertaining to climate change or global warming<\/a>\u00a0while doing public lands related\u00a0work.<\/p>\n

Although the story was covered bymultiple<\/a>\u00a0media<\/a>\u00a0outlets<\/a>, lost in the public discussion so far is how the vote fits into the broader multi-front industry attack in\u00a0America’s Dairyland-turned-Petro State<\/a>\u00a0and which industry interests may have played a role in the\u00a0vote.<\/p>\n

The historical roots of the vote appear to trace back to an\u00a0April 2009 congressional testimony<\/a>\u00a0given by Tia Nelson,\u00a0executive secretary for the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands and\u00a0daughter of former Wisconsin Democratic Governor\u00a0Gaylord Nelson<\/a>, in favor of passage of the\u00a0American Clean Energy Security Act of 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That bill is\u00a0better known as the controversial and eventually nixed\u00a0Waxman-Markey climate bill<\/a>, a bill opposed vigorously by the fossil fuel industry (and\u00a0some environmentalists, too<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Gaylord Nelson served as the founder of Earth Day and is the namesake for both the\u00a0University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies<\/a>, as well as\u00a0Gaylord Nelson State Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tia Nelson, when she testified in front of congress, sat as co-chair of former Wisconsin Democratic Governor Jim Doyle’s global warming task force. The task force\u00a0\u2014\u00a0announced during Doyle’s 2007 State of the State address<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0published a report in July 2008 titled, \u201cWisconsin\u2019s Strategy for Reducing Global Warming<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

That report was\u00a0derided by environmentalists<\/a>\u00a0for coming out in support of\u00a0lifting the state’s nuclear energy moratorium<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0by corporate interests<\/a>\u00a0and climate change deniers like\u00a0State Policy Network<\/a>\u00a0(SPN<\/span>) \u201cstink tank<\/a>\u201d members\u00a0Wisconsin Public Research Institute (WPRI<\/span>)<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Beacon Hill Institute<\/a>, which co-authored a November 2009 report titled, \u201cThe Economics of Climate Change Proposals in Wisconsin<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wisconsin Climate Change Gag Order Part of Broader Industry-Tied Attacks on Science On April 7,\u00a0Wisconsin’s Board of Commissioners of Public Lands\u00a0voted 2-1 to\u00a0ban those employed by the agency from doing any work pertaining to climate change or global warming\u00a0while doing public lands related\u00a0work. Although the story was covered bymultiple\u00a0media\u00a0outlets, lost in the public discussion so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[4731,141,4729,369,512,4730],"class_list":["post-7230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-american-clean-energy-act","tag-climate-change","tag-gag-order","tag-global-warming","tag-media","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}