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Wisconsin legislators need to put the brakes on a plan to use Wisconsin residents as crash test dummies and the state’s roads as test-tracks for untested technology.Rep. Dave Maxey, R-New Berlin has called for Wisconsin to open the door to having fully autonomous vehicles on the state’s roadways. As reported in the Feb. 4 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Maxey testified in support of legislation to...

E DITORTo the Editor: The Trump administration has repealed the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas 'endangerment finding.” In 2009, the EPA formally concluded that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health, giving the agency its legal authority to limit pollution from cars, power plants and oil and gas facilities.The new rule strips away that foundation, an...

During the Feb. 12 Assembly floor session, Rep. Karen Hurd (R-Withee) voted in favor of a package of legislation based on the recommendations of the Speaker’s Task Force on Rulemaking. This task force was charged with identifying rulemaking authority to be repealed by legislation and proposing draft legislation to strengthen legislative oversight of agency rulemaking. Included in this package ar...