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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) says the Interior Department may be breaking the law as it develops the forthcoming stream protection rule. He was referring to the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement's decision not to share new documents on the regulation with cooperating states. Mining companies, states and pro-coal lawmakers, many of them skeptical of the proposal, see… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12), a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, addressed the Great Lakes Congressional Breakfast and spoke of her pride in joining Senator Debbie Stabenow (MI), Congresswoman Candice Miller (MI-10) and bipartisan members of the Michigan delegation in introducing a bill to protect the Great Lakes from invasive species. The Defending Our… Read more »

Legislation proposed Thursday by most of the members of Michigan's congressional delegation would help create a new barrier to voracious Asian Carp in an Illinois waterway and call for a long-term plan for keeping the invasive species out of the Great Lakes. U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, sponsored it in both chambers, with most of… Read more »