Attorney Vanessa Wishart quoted by WPR on State grant program addressing PFAS contamination
Stafford Rosenbaum Attorney Vanessa Wishart was recently interviewed as an expert in PFAS regulation by Wisconsin Public Radio. Two new grant programs, aimed at helping communities and private well owners address PFAS contamination, were announced on October 20, 2026, and are being launched by Governor Tony Evers and the Wisconsin DNR.
The grant programs being offered by the DNR would provide municipalities with funding for drinking water sampling as well as wastewater, sewage sludge, and liquid waste sampling at treatment plants to assess PFAS levels. Because this sampling can be expensive for wastewater operations that seek to monitor costs in the interest of utilities ratepayers, Attorney Wishart says, “That’s one area where I see utilities really being able to put these funds to good use to engage in source reduction efforts upstream, which enables them to lower PFAS in both effluent and biosolids,” (https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-launches-grant-programs-pfas-contamination).
Read more of Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Wisconsin launches grant programs to address PFAS contamination” here.
Attorney Vanessa Wishart is a partner at Stafford Rosenbaum, where she co-leads the firm’s Environment and Land Use Law Team. She focuses her practice on environment, land use, government, and administrative law, and she is highly experienced with environmental matters, including those involving water quality regulation, public water usage, wastewater and stormwater management, dam regulation, lake levels, WPDES permits and petitions, sewer use ordinances, and CAFO development. Vanessa also litigates a broad range of environmental issues. She frequently writes and presents on environmental and water law topics for organizations like the State Bar of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Law Review, and a variety of municipal and professional organizations.
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