Volume 6, Issue 6

Lansing, MI: 5-28-98

The Michigan House of Representatives has issued a release proclaiming that a Southeast Michigan lawmaker, Andrew Richner, “supports preserving the state’s environment, but opposes federal regulations that curb urban revitalization to preserve [so called] civil rights.” The release also stated that “The EPA guidelines will raise the cost of doing business in urban areas and will drive business out into greenfield areas…in direct contravention of our own efforts to redevelop brownfields and urban industrial sites.” This editor would note that EPA’s well intended but misdirected “environmental justice” policy is turning into a civil rights issue (CWMCN Volume 6, Issue No. 5).

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