MADISON - This week, the legal challenge to the City of Racine’s plan to divert Great Lakes water to the Foxconn industrial complex advanced, with notice of a pre-hearing conference date and the addition of prominent petitioners. 
 
In the Spring, Midwest Environmental Advocates, on behalf of four petitioners (League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, and River Alliance of Wisconsin), filed a legal challenge with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR).  The petitioners contend that DNR’s approval of Racine’s request for a Great Lakes water diversion for the Foxconn development violates the Great Lakes Compact, an interstate agreement enacted to protect this economic and cultural resource.