Here you go zdog, a good place to start...
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/frame/d...
this one has page numbers/easier to find the amendments it looks like they entered today..
http://www.thewheelerreport.com/wheeler_...

It may take a few hours to look over.

Here we go at the risk of being called a tree hugger leftist liberal DO we want to go backwards to keep up or just an idea hold these other countrys and corporate types to improving the way they do things? A rising tide raises all boats.

Mr. Bill, if these mines are not going to be "dirty", why the necessity to lessen environmental standards?

So it is red. Thanks Bill.

I suppose that PanamaRed thinks that any mines here in Wisconsin will be just as dirty as the ones in China, or Africa, or India or wherever the taconite may come from. Yeah, sure. And of course Gov. Walker's only interest in the mine is campaign cash. Right. Take a bow PanamaRed, you get the "Four legs good, two legs better" award of the day!

Perhaps Pastafarian thinks that if we do drive away the mining company so that their is no mining here, we'll just do without the taconite. That we won't do what has too frequently been done in the past, increase the exploitation of the poor countries for their natural resources and their workers (children included) with little regard for the consequences to the environment or their wellbeing even if they are exploited willingly. Uh huh, you bet. It seems that Pastafarian has some trouble correctly identifying red herrings. That's not surprising when one considers how often he falls for them.

zdog - I believe that newspaper editors are concerned that their journalists aren't taking on difficult stories due to the demands editors make about the reporting quality. Many Associated Press editors are switching from the traditional Who, What, Where, When, Why, How and Web story requirements to the Moe cum laude, Curly cum laude and Shemp cum laude story requirements.

nyuk nyuk nyuk

... or are the changes motivated by reader requirements? Are you old enough to remember The Weekly Reader "newspapers" we used to be able to get in grade school? They were written at the 3rd-4th grade level, which is the reading level a majority of high school students graduate at today. Too few people want to do their own thinking. Most people pick their political party and religious denomination and want to be told what to think by them. They become petulant if asked to think for themselves or to draw conclusions directly from the facts, without having their hands held by their preferred politician, minister, or community organizer.

why is it that everytime there is something to be reported, they never report anything other than stupid rhetoric???? So there were changes to the bill, how about linking the proposed bill and highlighting changes?
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or is that too tough for a journalist these days? better to just give a headline and some political response by the opposition?

Of course not Bill, we want to see dirty mines with little regard for the welfare of the miners in our own backyard - as long as the mining lobby keeps pumping millons of dollars into my pocket...,er I mean my campaign fund. -signed Gov. Walker

It's a shame that politics has to get in the way of everything.

Bill, what color is that herring you're tossing about?

The Democrats will never be happy until they destroy any chance that this mine will ever open, forcing taconite production to increase overseas where environmental concerns are negligible and child labor in mining is allowed. Is that what you want to see happen, Senator Cullen? Do you think it's OK to have dirty mines overseas with little regard for the welfare of the miners as long as it's not in our backyard?

The republicans will never be happy until they destroy everything. If it was near your home or city, you may think different and as to jobs haha, research. Short term destruction for long term eyesore.

"Now there are some things in the world we can’t change – gravity, entropy, the speed of light, the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere, for example" -David Suzuki

Unfortunately, this debate isn't about the environment or mining. It is about democrats and republicans playing "one upmanship". It is ideology between two polar opposites.
These morons fight while people are unemployed who could be working.

The democrats will never be happy no matter how many changes are made to the bill. They don't want any mining in Wisconsin and will try to keep this bill in the courts the rest of their lives. M

The very word "unveiled" is an indicator that this is not a transparent process with public involvement, but a process taking place behind a curtain.