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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today reaffirmed the importance of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) for states across the country after the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that Michigan will receive $2,468,616 to support conservation and recreation projects in local communities. The LWCF was founded 50 years ago and has preserved public lands and natural… Read more »

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) released the following statement on a study released today by the Water Center at the University of Michigan documenting the potential impacts of an oil spill in Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac. “Today the University of Michigan released a study that demonstrates that all of us in Michigan need to be concerned about Line 5 under the Straits of… Read more »

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12), a member of the House Budget Committee, today asked her colleagues to take one nonpartisan vote to meet a moral obligation to the people of Flint. She called on members of the committee to support an amendment she offered to the FY2017 budget resolution that would designate $457.5 million in emergency funding for Flint in 2016 to address the ongoing… Read more »

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) released the following statement regarding the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s long-overdue proposal to strengthen the state’s cleanup standards for 1,4-dioxane. Last month, Dingell sent a letter to MDEQ Director Keith Creagh urging the state to finalize stricter standards to help accelerate cleanup of a dioxane plume that… Read more »

U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and U.S. Representative Candice Miller (MI-10) today announced that the State Department has agreed to reopen the public comment period for the proposed use of pipelines under the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers for an additional 30 days. Earlier this month, Dingell and Miller wrote a letter to Secretary John Kerry urging him to allow time for… Read more »

Today, U.S. Representatives Candice Miller (MI-10) and Debbie Dingell (MI-12) sent a letter to Secretary Kerry urging him to extend the public comment period for Plains LPG Services’ proposed use of pipelines under the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers, which supply drinking water to millions who rely on them and other water intakes along the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair.… Read more »

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today sent a letter to Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) Director Keith Creagh urging the state to take long-overdue action to finalize stricter cleanup standards for 1,4-dioxane that will bring the level permissible in groundwater more in line with the national standard and help accelerate cleanup of an underground dioxane plume that… Read more »

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today joined colleagues in the House to adopt, by a vote of 316 to 113, the fiscal year 2016 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which funds the government for 2016. “This comprehensive funding bill isn’t perfect, but it represents a bipartisan compromise that has many victories for America’s working families.   “It provides… Read more »

A bill that would earmark funds for research and development of alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies as well as create truck-specific programs within the Department of Energy (DOE) has been introduced in the House by Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) as the Vehicle Innovation Act (VIA), H.R. 4106. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) introduced the legislation in the Senate earlier this year… Read more »

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12), ranking member of the Natural Resources Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, expressed concerns this week about Chairman Rob Bishop’s (UT-01) draft legislation that would weaken and dramatically restructure the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). Congress allowed the LWCF, the nation’s premier recreation and conservation… Read more »