[CPEO-BIF] Michigan funds depleted

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

No state funds left for toxic cleanups

Muskegon Chronicle
February 9, 2008

LANSING -- The state Department of Environmental Quality has run out of 
money for toxic-site cleanups and brownfield-redevelopment projects.

"That's not good for public health and the environment and 
municipalities that want to reinvigorate contaminated areas in their 
community," DEQ Director Steven Chester said.

Cleanups and redevelopment projects have been funded for the past 20 
years by two statewide bonds, approved by voters in 1988 and 1998.

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For the entire article, see
http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2008/02/no_state_funds_left_for_toxic.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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