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Pushing Past The Chemical Lobby For Safe Communities
For nearly 20 years, public health advocates have proposed toxic chemical use reductions as the most effective way to address industrial chemical risks. At the same time, our nation has recently experienced a number of explosions and accidents at chemical plants—highlighting the safety and security risks of toxic chemicals.
It’s time to push past the chemical lobby and pass strong rules through Congress that require facilities to replace dangerous chemicals with safer alternatives. More.
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Competition for Electricity Has Failed in Michigan—4/11/07
LANSING—Restructuring our electricity system has led to higher costs for residents, while still leaving them without choice according to PIRGIM’s new report, Lessons Learned: Michigan Electricity Restructuring Report. In 2000, Michigan joined several other states in altering our electricity system to create competition with the hopes that customers would see lower costs and more choices. So far, those goals have not been met and it is unlikely they ever will be.
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 Lessons Learned: Michigan Electricity Restructuring Report—4/11/07
Less than a decade ago, Michigan, along with numerous other States throughout the U.S., began experimenting with increased economic competition within the electric industry. Many states had high expectations in the replacement of traditional cost and services regulation of the electric industry with market driven competition in the generation and supply of electricity. They had hoped that the onerous rate case processes and regulatory procedures would be replaced by market driven efficiencies and that true competition would benefit all customers. With that stated purpose, the Michigan legislature passed the "Customer Choice and Electric Reliability Act" which went into effect shortly after Governor John Engler signed it in June 2000. This law had an impact on both The Detroit Edison Company and Consumers Energy Company and their customers in Michigan.
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