JPMorgan Chase’s debit card contract to be extended despite state employees’ call to end an estimated $1M a year in user fees LANSING – Michigan is set to extend a lucrative contract with JPMorgan Chase Bank that has taken an estimated $1 million a year out of unemployed workers’ pockets by charging them exorbitant debit-card…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 Contact: Mitchell Rivard, 517-227-5233, mitchell@progressmichigan.org Ahead of PSC meeting, Snyder administration and utilities have chance to embrace clean energy economy, create jobs in Michigan LANSING – Clean energy advocacy and environmental groups today urged Gov. Rick Snyder to abandon his continued support for coal in Michigan in the…
News from Clean Energy Now FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, December 2, 2011 Contact: David Holtz, (313-300-4454) Report: Consumers Energy Said To Abandon Multi-Billion Dollar Project LANSING – Clean energy advocacy and environmental groups today welcomed the reported decision by Consumer Energy to forgo a proposed giant 830 megawatt coal plant near Bay City. “This is a tremendous victory…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 1, 2011 Michigan’s leading environmental groups today applauded Governor Rick Snyder on using his first veto since taking office to strike down House Bill 4326. This bill would have stripped the authority of Michigan’s governor to protect the Great Lakes and the other natural resources that inspired the Pure Michigan campaign…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, Nov. 28, 2011 Contact: David Holtz, (313) 300-4454 Lawmakers should honor transparency if group truly is not lobbying LANSING, MI – Progress Michigan called today on the state Legislature to release all emails and other communications between lawmakers and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, including those of a lobbying nature,…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News From Protect Michigan Waters From Fracking Campaign Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 Contact: Mitchell Rivard, 517-227-5233, mitchell@progressmichigan.org Package of bills introduced in state legislature would enact common-sense reforms for hydrofracking in Michigan GRAYLING – Michigan conservation groups and concerned citizens joined together today with Representative Mark Meadows (D-East Lansing) outside a Northern…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 Contact: Mitchell Rivard, 517-227-5233, mitchell@progressmichigan.org Solar industry has created thousands of good-paying jobs in Michigan LANSING – Conservative, Big Oil billionaires Charles and David Koch are spending millions on a new television ad attempting to frame the failure of the Solyndra solar energy company as an election liability…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, September 22, 2011 Contact: Nic Clark, 517-203-0754 House Subcommittee has not allowed citizens to give input during hearings LANSING – While the Michigan House Natural Gas Subcommittee held a third public hearing today to discuss a dangerous natural-gas extraction process known as fracking, one thing was once again missing from the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 CONTACT: David Holtz (517) 999-3646 or (313) 300-4454 Contracted caregivers responsible for resident’s broken neck, another’s hospitalization LANSING – Employees alarmed by deteriorating conditions at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans are calling on the state to halt the transfer of the veterans’ care to contracted workers like…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Friday, September 9, 2011 David Holtz 313-300-4454 Senate Leader Criticized for Retaliating Against Teachers Who Disagree LANSING, MI—Progress Michigan today called on state Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville to rescind his reported retaliatory political threat against Michigan’s teachers and their constitutionally protected rights to participate in the…