Staff Attorney for Clean Wisconsin
Mr. Feinauer is Staff Attorney for Clean Wisconsin, an environmental advocacy nonprofit located in Madison, Wisconsin. His work focuses on water issues across Wisconsin. Working with Clean Wisconsin’s partners, Mr. Feinauer litigated a pair of cases that were recently argued before the Wisconsin Supreme Court concerning groundwater quantity issues caused by the proliferation of high-capacity wells in the Central Sands and polluted farm runoff from a large dairy farm in Kewaunee County. Mr. Feinauer also successfully challenged a wetland fill permit the Department of Natural Resources issued for the construction of a frac sand facility, protecting over 16 acres of rare, pristine wetlands in Monroe County. He also supports Clean Wisconsin’s lobbyists and policy experts in their work advocating for strong legislation, administrative rules, and agency decision-making to protect Wisconsin’s waters. Before joining Clean Wisconsin, Mr. Feinauer worked as a Litigation Fellow with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). At NRDC, he helped litigate a Safe Drinking Water Act citizen suit responding to the Flint water crisis in federal district court in Detroit, MI. Mr. Feinauer holds a B.A. degree in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.S. degree in Ethics and Public Policy from Suffolk University, and a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School.

Attorney with Murphy Desmond S.C.
Attorney Frank’s practice focuses on environmental and energy law. He is also chair of the firm’s Business and Real Estate Practice Group. He provides experienced counsel to businesses, start-ups, municipalities, utilities, organizations and individuals in a wide range of environmental and energy matters, helping clients successfully navigate regulatory and legal challenges. Mr. Frank is a former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and assistant attorney general with the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ). During his tenure as DNR secretary from 2007 through 2010, he oversaw the DNR’s regulatory and permitting programs, including air and water quality, waste and recycling, wetlands, groundwater, environmental clean-ups and brownfields restoration. Mr. Frank worked closely with businesses and communities on sustainability initiatives such as the Green Tier program and the Green Tier Legacy Communities Charter. He also worked closely on environmental and natural resource issues with officials in the Environmental Protection Agency, other federal agencies, states across the country, and Wisconsin tribal and local governments. Murphy Desmond has offices in Madison, Appleton, Janesville and Dodgeville.

Mr. Freihoefer currently works as a groundwater hydrologist within the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ (WDNR) Bureau of Drinking and Groundwater in Madison, Wisconsin where he employs various analytical and numeric hydrologic analyses to evaluate the impact of high capacity wells to Wisconsin’s waters. In conjunction with his current position, he has accrued 12 years of experience in areas related to water quantity and quality regulatory policy, surface water hydrology, water quality monitoring, surface and groundwater numeric modeling, and GIS. Mr. Freihoefer obtained his B.S. (Hydrogeology) and M.S. (Water Resources) degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. His M.S. degree research improved approaches to calibrate watershed-scale process models for simulating hydrology, sediment,and nutrient transport with field-scale monitoring data. Mr. Freihoefer previously served as a water quality modeler for the WDNR’s Bureau of Water Quality where he coordinated and implemented the technical aspects of water quality analysis and numeric modeling for the successful development of watershed improvement projects throughout Wisconsin.

Mr. Kraft is a Professor of Water Resources and director of the Center for Watershed Science and Education. He holds appointments with both the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point College of Natural Resources and the University of Wisconsin – Extension. His work centers around groundwater sustainability for quantity and quality. Of late, most of his work has concerned groundwater pumping impacts on surface water, combining research, outreach, and policy concerns. Dr. Kraft’s research interests revolve about questions of water resource sustainability, particularly about profitable agriculture and water impacts.