From polluter pay laws to plastic bag bans, Democratic lawmakers and environmental advocates hope to reverse Republican-passed laws and revisit Democratic issues that faltered in the Republican-led Legislature.
Michigan PFAS chemical threats
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3M to stop making PFAS ‘forever chemical.’ Michigan asks what took so long?
The chemicals have been used in hundreds of household products for decades, even as more studies became public showing their danger to human health and ubiquitous presence in water. Michigan has hundreds of identified sites of PFAS contamination.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
Dana Nessel sues former west Michigan company over PFAS, other pollution
The suit blames FKI Hardware Inc. for contaminating nine west Michigan properties with PFAS, volatile organic compounds and metals before exiting Michigan in 2016. It’s the latest in a slew of actions by Nessel’s office against alleged groundwater polluters.
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Reports: Huron River largely dodged hexavalent chromium scare
No-contact order lifted after investigators conclude that most of the chromium released from a tank at Tribar Manufacturing in Wixom never made it into the Huron River.
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State: Tribar staffer ignored 460 alarms in Huron River chromium release
A series of violation notices raise new questions about the events at the plant. State regulators indicate that on-site alarms at the company were overridden hundreds of times during a weekend evening when “no one should be at the facility.”
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Huron River chromium spill prompts call for stricter Michigan pollution law
After a Wixom chrome plater released hexavalent chromium into sewers that lead to the Huron River, locals and activists are calling for tighter regulation to prevent future spills, if not an outright ban on nonessential uses of the toxic metal.
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Huron River chromium spill investigation zeroes in on Milford pond
A don’t touch advisory remains in effect for the section of the river in Oakland and Livingston counties, after a Wixom automotive supplier released thousands of gallons of liquid containing the toxic metal.
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Latest Huron River tests find no cancer-causing chromium; advisory remains
State regulators say testing is ongoing and caution residents to still avoid stretches of the upper river. One official calls tests so far ‘encouraging.’
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Anger, uncertainty and a race for answers in Huron River chromium spill
While state regulators await test results to determine how far the hexavalent chromium-tainted water has spread, Huron River advocates are calling for stiff penalties against a company with a history of polluting the river.
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Cancer-causing hexavalent chromium spills from Wixom plant into Huron River
Residents in parts of two Michigan counties are told to avoid “all contact” with Huron River water due to “several thousand gallons” of liquid containing a carcinogen from Tribar Manufacturing in Wixom, the plant behind a previous spill involving PFAS.