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Senate Committee Hears Testimony on Bills to Reform Pollution Laws

Senate Committee Hears Testimony on Bills to Reform Pollution Laws

“My village has beautiful artesian water that we can’t drink. I’m just waiting for another family member who will get sick and die from PFAS.”    LANSING, Mich. (June 11, 2025) — The Michigan Senate Committee on Energy and the Environment, chaired by Sen. Sean McCann...

Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation to Support Michigan Renters 

Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation to Support Michigan Renters 

Legislative package works to break barriers faced by Michigan renters, ensure greater transparency in landlord practices    LANSING, Mich. (June 10, 2025) — To help address the state's housing crisis, today, Senate Democrats introduced a comprehensive bill package...

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Our clean water and pollution cleanup laws need an update. One reason we need to fix the law is that our current law allows cleanups that aren't really cleanups. As a result, we have surrendered over 4500 aquifers already to pollution. How many more parcels and groundwater resources are we going to permanently surrender to corporate profits before we make polluters clean up their mess.

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Michigan Republicans are proposing school budgets that attack k12 schools and universities. Today, Michigan Republicans came out with a proposal to cut higher education, increase tuition, and stunt Michigan's growth and prosperity.

These cuts, if approved, will be a job killer and will increase tuition greatly. Moreover, institutions like NMU or Lake Superior State University - in my hometown - wi
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Michigan Republicans are proposing school budgets that attack k12 schools and universities. Today, Michigan Republicans came out with a proposal to cut higher education, increase tuition, and stunt Michigans growth and prosperity.

These cuts, if approved, will be a job killer and will increase tuition greatly. Moreover, institutions like NMU or Lake Superior State University - in my hometown - will not be able to sustain these cuts and keep their doors open.

Here are the cuts proposed for each institution:

1. CMU, minus $20.1M, 21.2% of their state funding.
2. EMU, minus $24.5M, 28.8%
3. Ferris, minus $20.2M, 33.2%
4. GVSU, minus $58.2M, 58.2%
5. Lake State, minus $2.3M, 14.3%
6. MSU, minus $237.4M, 72.6%
7. Michigan Tech, minus $8.2M, 14.7%
8. NMU, minus $9.3M, 17%
9. Oakland, minus $37.9M, 51.2%
10. Saginaw Valley, minus $18.7M, 53.8%
11. UofM, Ann Arbor, minus $335M, 91.6%
12. UM Dearborn, minus $18M, 56.5%
13. UM Flint, minus $12.6M, 47%
14. Wayne State, minus $11.8M, 5.1%
15. WMU, minus $13M, 10.5%

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