{"id":5868,"date":"2020-10-12T19:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/chang\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2020-10-12T19:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:58:53","slug":"sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Stephanie Chang<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Detroit) has issued the following statement after the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes &amp; Energy announced&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2020\/10\/12\/revere-dock-fined-60000-dock-collapse-last-fall\/5967683002\/\">fines and a remediation plan for Revere Dock LLC, whose dock collapsed into the Detroit River last fall<\/a>&nbsp;and raised contamination concerns in one of the city\u2019s largest sources of fresh water:<br \/><br \/>\u201cWhile I\u2019m glad there is a remediation plan in place and the appropriate authority held responsible, today\u2019s news does not negate the need to do more to protect the public\u2019s health and waterways. Every tragedy that happens is a warning that we must act differently before the next. The dock collapse in the Detroit River put a whole city \u2014 and others who pull from the river as a water source \u2014 on notice. Now is the time to act to ensure we do not see another environmental disaster, because Michigan, of all places, has every reason to be a leader in clean water and public health.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Sen. Chang, alongside Sens.&nbsp;<strong>Rosemary Bayer<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Beverly Hills) and&nbsp;<strong>Erika Geiss<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Taylor), have already introduced legislation to protect major waterways and public health by ensuring statewide risk assessments be conducted, and a public database of findings made available, regarding contaminated properties along major waterways. The legislation would also require inspections of commercial and industrial docks, as well as notifications on spills into waterways.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.mi.gov\/doc.aspx?2020-SB-0948\">Senate Bills 948<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.mi.gov\/doc.aspx?2020-SB-0949\">949<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.mi.gov\/doc.aspx?2020-SB-0950\">950<\/a>&nbsp;were introduced in June and sent to the Senate Environmental Quality Committee, where they await a hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;Stephanie Chang&nbsp;(D-Detroit) has issued the following statement after the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes &amp; Energy announced&nbsp;fines and a remediation plan for Revere Dock LLC, whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner - Senator Stephanie Chang<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;Stephanie Chang&nbsp;(D-Detroit) has issued the following statement after the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes &amp; Energy announced&nbsp;fines and a remediation plan for Revere Dock LLC, whose [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Senator Stephanie Chang\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-12T19:58:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#\/schema\/person\/d70eb43c43b9d6128dac1bd664ee6466\"},\"headline\":\"Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-12T19:58:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/\"},\"wordCount\":268,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Press release\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/\",\"name\":\"Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner - Senator Stephanie Chang\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-12T19:58:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#\/schema\/person\/d70eb43c43b9d6128dac1bd664ee6466\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/\",\"name\":\"Senator Stephanie Chang\",\"description\":\"Michigan Senate Democrats\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#\/schema\/person\/d70eb43c43b9d6128dac1bd664ee6466\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3da2887db706dfa8587baba5d85c3807e267a58764ccea2e0a413b3f0364806c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3da2887db706dfa8587baba5d85c3807e267a58764ccea2e0a413b3f0364806c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/senatedemssandbox.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner - Senator Stephanie Chang","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner","og_description":"LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;Stephanie Chang&nbsp;(D-Detroit) has issued the following statement after the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes &amp; Energy announced&nbsp;fines and a remediation plan for Revere Dock LLC, whose [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/","og_site_name":"Senator Stephanie Chang","article_published_time":"2020-10-12T19:58:53+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#\/schema\/person\/d70eb43c43b9d6128dac1bd664ee6466"},"headline":"Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner","datePublished":"2020-10-12T19:58:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/"},"wordCount":268,"commentCount":0,"articleSection":["Press release"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/","url":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/","name":"Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner - Senator Stephanie Chang","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-10-12T19:58:53+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#\/schema\/person\/d70eb43c43b9d6128dac1bd664ee6466"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/2020\/10\/12\/sen-chang-responds-to-egle-penalties-for-dock-collapse-owner\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sen. Chang Responds to EGLE Penalties for Dock Collapse Owner"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/","name":"Senator Stephanie Chang","description":"Michigan Senate Democrats","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#\/schema\/person\/d70eb43c43b9d6128dac1bd664ee6466","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3da2887db706dfa8587baba5d85c3807e267a58764ccea2e0a413b3f0364806c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3da2887db706dfa8587baba5d85c3807e267a58764ccea2e0a413b3f0364806c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/senatedemssandbox.com"],"url":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/chang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}