department of environmental quality

Bill Would Require Michigan DEQ To Notify Local Users Of Water System Contamination In 2 Days

LANSING - The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality would be required to notify local users of a water system about a tier II violation within two business days - a change from the 30-day window currently required - under a bill taken up in the House Government Operations Committee on Thursday. Under HB 5120, sponsored

By |2016-04-22T10:23:41-04:00April 22nd, 2016|Clean Update, Politics|

Snyder Apologizes To Flint Residents For DEQ Water Quality Failure

LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder apologized to Flint residents for the failures of state agencies and called on the departments of Environmental Quality and Health and Human Services to reach out to experts on drinking water quality in light of additional preliminary findings of the Flint Water Advisory Task Force that put the primary responsibility

By |2015-12-29T20:22:49-05:00December 29th, 2015|Clean Update, Featured, Politics|

Few Position Changes As Air Rules Head To Final Revisions

LANSING - Industry and environmental groups remained split on new air emissions rules based on their comments Monday at a public hearing on the changes. The rules, developed as a result of Governor Rick Snyder's rules advisory committee process to comb through the state's regulations, would reduce the number of chemicals required to be regulated

By |2015-12-07T21:47:57-05:00December 7th, 2015|Clean Update, Politics|