The Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy moved one step closer to being able to make administrative rules governing water resources protection for the first time in nearly two decades after legislation was voted on Wednesday in the Senate to make the change.
MACKINAC ISLAND – Michigan needs tougher tobacco restrictions, a panel at the Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference said on Wednesday.
Members of the Senate took a step toward the creation of a sales and use tax exemption for enterprise data centers Thursday through a bipartisan vote on an amended bill to establish the proposed credit.
The Senate will soon begin moving its own version of legislation to extend the sunset of a law enabling courts to impose costs in criminal cases, ensuring passage as soon as possible given the currently tied House.
Senators heard divided testimony Tuesday over proposed changes to the Pesticide Notification Registry, with supporters saying it would improve access to the registry while business owners said it could hurt them and their industry of addressing pests and noxious weeds.
When Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed off on expansive recycling reforms in December 2022, she also approved a last-minute amendment allowing chemical recycling – a process decried by many environmentalists – to be classified as a legal manufacturing process.
Legislation introduced this week would require utilities to provide rebates to customers who install rooftop solar and/or energy storage systems and create a program that would compensate businesses and homeowners for providing generated and stored energy to the grid.
A Senate panel on Thursday reported bills to expand Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy rulemaking authority and to create the Michigan High-Speed Internet Office in the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, respectively.
The state's environmental agency would be able to, for the first time since 2006, make administrative rules related to water resources protection under a bill before a Senate committee on Thursday.
Prisoner health care access and transforming the Thumb Correctional Facility into a Department of Corrections educational campus for inmate reentry programs were among the top recommendations for state's prison system in the governor's budget recommendations released Wednesday.