Tag: Michigan
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Lame Duck Fallout in Michigan
What a group of last-minute laws mean for Michigan’s environment Four bills state legislators passed during its lame duck session have transformed Michigan’s environmental policy. One sweeping new law prevents the state from enacting environmental standards that are stricter than federal standards, except in certain cases. Another rolled back wetlands regulations. A third made it…
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Bill would limit science Michigan uses to regulate toxic cleanups
Young’s Environmental workers dig into a hillside on House Street NE in Belmont, Mich., where Wolverine World Wide dumped tannery waste on what’s now MDOT property. Photo taken Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Barrels containing tannery waste and animal hides were discovered on the property. (Neil Blake | MLive.com) (Neil Blake | nblake1@mlive.com) LANSING, MI —…
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Businesses discharging PFAS into Michigan’s waterways
Michigan businesses are discharging high levels of PFAS that move into the state’s waterways on a daily basis. An MLive investigation found that manufacturing sources are sending one version of the “forever chemicals” at up to 20,000 times the allowed amount into wastewater systems that discharge it into the state’s lakes, rivers and, ultimately, threatening…
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‘What did we do?’ Families anxious about chemicals found in tap water
Photo: Emergency response teams hand out bottled water to residents at Parchment High School. (CNN)It’s been about three weeks since Tammy Cooper last drank water from her tap. That’s when she saw a warning on Facebook for residents of her small Western Michigan town to stop drinking the water. In Michigan, water main breaks aren’t…
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Study: Flint’s lead-poisoned water had ‘horrifyingly large’ effect on fetal deaths
Flint resident LaFonzo Williams, 19, prays on Jan. 14, 2016, in Lansing, Mich., amid more than 150 Flint and Detroit residents before heading into the state Capitol to protest Gov. Rick Snyder, asking for his resignation and arrest in relation to Flint’s water crisis. (Jake May/Flint Journal-MLive.com via Associated Press) The fertility rate in Flint,…
