Contact your Representatives about these 4 bills to make polluters pay
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Sen. Irwin/HB 4640 Rep. Koleszar — Report more information about polluted sites and require more contaminated materials to be removed or treated rather than left in place;
Sen. Moss/HB 4636 Rep. Morgan — Provide a usable process for updating cleanup criteria to protect public health as researchers learn more about risks, and prioritize removing contamination over using land/water use restrictions;
Sen. Chang/HB 4638 Rep. Arbit — Make necessary changes to rulemaking so experts can update inputs for cleanup criteria and target detection limits;
Sen. Shink/HB 4637 Rep. McKinney — Enable people exposed to a hazardous substance to recover costs from the polluter to cover medical monitoring before a serious health condition has been diagnosed;
Sen. McMorrow/HB 4639 Rep. Skaggs — Extend the statute of limitations under NREPA so the state of Michigan can hold polluters accountable for cleanup costs and damages to our environment from contaminants not regulated before 1994, including PFAS; and
Sen. McCann/Rep. Neeley — Extend the statute of limitations for hazardous substance claims so Michiganders who have only recently found out that they were harmed can sue polluters, aligning with the federal statute of limitations “discovery rule.”
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If we can get these passed, we WIN!
When the polluter must pay to clean up their own toxic mess, many of these polluting processes will become cost-prohibitive.
Write to or call your MI House & Senate member to say YOU want them to pass these bills.
The Upper Peninsula’s Menominee River is being threatened with a gold- “sulfide bound minerals mine”. More of these toxic spills happen worldwide, because “21st Century mining” is larger in scale than in the pick & shovel days.
The Menominee River is the U.P.’s largest watershed river & empties into Lake Michigan. Let’s get these Polluter Pays laws passed. Let’s save our Water Wonderland.
These laws will help prevent polluting coal-burning power plants, and could have prevented The Flint Water Crisis.
Contact your area’s MI Congress members. Thank you.
Yours, Natalie Lashmet
www.GreenwashFillm.com
