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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. A TMDL also is supposed to give regulators the authority to compel point-source polluters to reduce their foul wastes. . By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J.
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By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 28, 2021. They worry that scrapping the project after it was approved by state and federal regulators would set a bad precedent for the state and subject future permitting decisions to partisan politics. Proponents of the transmission line have spent more money on their campaign.
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