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Giant Mobile Coal Plant, Ogre-like Smokestack Patty Land on Legislature

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Contact: Dan Farough 517.999.3646 Office 517.643.2949 Cell http://progressmichigan.org Groups unleash accountability campaign to protect Michigan’s energy future LANSING – With a 12-foot-tall effigy of Sen. Patty Birkholz and a 20-foot-tall inflatable coal plant looming over the State Capitol grounds, environmental watchdog groups today called on Michigan citizens to…

Michigan’s water is NOT for sale!

Do we really need more bottled water? Recent legislation passed by the Michigan Senate certainly moves us in that direction. Among the many things that SB 860 does to help open up Michigan’s water to corporate interests, it allows for up to two million gallons of water to be withdrawn each day without any kind…