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Who's On First? Officials in suburban Detroit point fingers over contaminated park |
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07 Nov 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Who's On First? Officials in suburban Detroit point fingers over contaminated park You remember when Katrina hit, and officials spent their time blaming each other instead of helping people? This is sort of like that, only smaller, and with less wind. Unsuspecting families in a Detroit suburb have played in a contaminated county park for years while city, county, and state officials argued over a cleanup plan. Repeated soil tests in ... |
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| Topics: Michigan, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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A Lansing Blow Michigan demands 90 percent cut to mercury emissions from power plants |
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18 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| A Lansing Blow Michigan demands 90 percent cut to mercury emissions from power plants Tired of other states getting all the eco-love, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) has ordered her state's coal-burning power plants to slash mercury emissions by 90 percent by 2015. Her plan will not be a cap-and-trade system, but will allow companies to produce a 90 percent average cut across all their plants, meaning some plants can pollute mor ... |
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| Topics: Michigan, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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