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McCain Health Care Plan Bad Deal for Michigan Families, Report Shows

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski September 30, 2008 (517) 999-3646-Office (248) 321-4579-Cell Middle Class Families Feel Burn of Shift from Employer-Based LANSING – With ordinary Americans increasingly struggling under the combined impact of the banking and health care crises, the Center for American Progress Action Fund is preparing to release a report that details…

Poll: Strong Public Support For Granholm Crackdown on Coal Plant Pollution

Survey Finds Voters in Support of Restricting CO2 Pollution from Coal Plants FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Contact: Dan Farough 517.999.3646 LANSING – The Sierra Club, Progress Michigan, and Clean Energy Now released a statewide poll today which found overwhelming support for stronger protections against global warming carbon dioxide pollution before more coal…

Citizens Rally Outside Insurance HQ, Fight Efforts to Derail Healthcare Reforms

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 (517) 999-3646 United Healthcare is part of bogus campaign to fool public FARMINGTON HILLS – Citizens and healthcare reform groups rallied today outside the United Healthcare headquarters to unmask the insurance industry’s role in a bogus campaign to fool the public and protect its massive…

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does to help open up Michigan’s water to corporate interests, it allows for up to two million gallons of water to be withdrawn each day without any kind…