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Local leaders gathered at the Washtenaw Food Hub in Ann Arbor Charter Township for a press conference to discuss the need to reauthorize the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act Tuesday morning. Last month, Congresswomen Debbie Dingell (D–Mich.), Candice Miller (R–Mich.) and Darin LaHood (R–Ill.) introduced the bill for reauthorization. The act, which was first… Read more »

Two years ago, work began to return 82 acres of land that was once heavily farmed back to its natural pre-settlement state. Now in the second growing season, the prairie grasslands along the south side of Joy Road — on both sides of U.S. 23 in Ann Arbor Township — are getting taller, and soon work will begin on restoring 14-plus acres of wetlands there. "The prairies… Read more »

As Arab American community organizations and activists grow more frustrated over the ineffectiveness of talks with federal leaders about systematic discrimination, they reached out to top Justice Department officials for a helping hand.  On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch made a special appearance at a BRIDGES meeting at the Lebanese American Heritage Club. She… Read more »

Her hands covered in oil, 18-year-old Phyllis Roullier assembled motor parts from morning to night at the Willow Run Bomber Plant to help win World War II. On Monday, the now 97-year-old "Rosie the Riveter" of Belleville returned to the B-24 bomber plant's enormous remaining building. "I used to like walking down to the end and see the planes taking off, because it… Read more »

Founded in 2001, the Detroit River International Refuge remains the only land conservation project of its kind in North America. Thanks to a donation from the Port of Monroe, the refuge will grow by an additional 35 acres. The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The land being added to the existing 5,834 acres in the U.S. is part of the Port of Monroe Marsh Tract. It… Read more »

Clayton and U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell headed a community unity meeting and town hall discussion Thursday at the EMU Student Center to address the recent spate of violence involving police officers and African-Americans in the United States. The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, both black, after encounters with police in Louisiana and Minnesota have prompted demonstrations… Read more »

House Republicans accused the Obama administration on Thursday of employing a double standard in favor of renewable energy when leasing out federal lands, pointing in particular to a controversial solar project in California. The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert became the focal point of a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing. Republicans complained that the… Read more »

Last Thursday, a bipartisan bill to provide $1.3 billion toward wildlife conservation was introduced to Congress. The bill, H.R. 5650, was introduced to the House of Representatives as the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act by Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Democrat from Michigan, and Rep. Don Young, a Republican from Alaska. If passed, royalties from energy and mineral developments on… Read more »

U.S. Representatives Don Young (AK) and Debbie Dingell (MI) Thursday introduced the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act of 2016 to help promote and enhance our nation’s conservation efforts and ensure the long-term health of fish and wildlife throughout the country. The legislation, based on a recommendation from a panel of conservation and business… Read more »

Everyone knows John Dingell brings the fun. And bipartisanship and ice cream.  The Michigan State Society, in cahoots with Dingell's wife, Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell, threw the Dean a 90th birthday party on Wednesday in the room named after him in the Rayburn Office Building.  The former congressman, who turns 90 on Friday, told the crowd of members from both sides of… Read more »