State of Michigan secondary Archives: on Environment

Debbie Dingell: The Great Lakes and fresh water are a precious resource

Gretchen Whitmer: Preserve open space; clean up contaminated sites

Whitmer supports the following principles regarding the environment.
• Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
• Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
• Support funding for open space preservation.
• Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
• Prohibit the hunting of mourning doves in Michigan.

Paul Mitchell: Don't regulate waters; do regulate sugar

• Provide needed oversight to ensure the fair implementation of the Farm Bill.
• Support the continuation of the national sugar program which allows this vital industry to continue at no cost to the American taxpayer.
• Oppose and repeal any efforts by the EPA to put in place the Waters of the United States regulatory overreach that would place onerous restrictions with little to no benefit for our nation's waters.