From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:53:46 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] MIchigan funding diversion debated |
Water pollution issue debated in Michigan Bill's foes say voters OK'd money for water, not brownfields. By LANE BLACKMER Capital News Service South Bend Tribune November 21, 2010LANSING -- Water quality advocates are fighting legislation that would let voter-approved bond money be used for brownfield cleanup rather than water infrastructure improvement. The money is on hand because Michigan voters in 2002 overwhelmingly approved a proposal that made $1 billion in loans available to the state to improve water quality. Now, Sen. Patty Birkholz, R-Saugatuck, is pushing a bill that would allocate about a third of the money left to clean up land polluted from industrial uses, otherwise known as brownfields. ... For the entire article, see http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20101121/News01/101129939 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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