The Senate Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to hear SB 1244 this week during meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday. Among other things, it would curb the state’s ability to consider scientific studies on the health impacts of toxic chemical exposure beyond those used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Environmental policy experts call the bill an end-run around a years-long process underway at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to update the safety thresholds known as criteria values that regulators use to oversee cleanup at pollution sites.
The bill also appears to incorporate elements of stalled legislation meant to block Michigan from passing regulations more stringent than baseline federal standards. Sen. […]
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