{"id":5044,"date":"2019-02-14T16:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/irwin\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2019-02-14T16:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:59:40","slug":"sen-irwin-on-senate-vote-against-egle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/irwin\/2019\/02\/14\/sen-irwin-on-senate-vote-against-egle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Irwin on Senate vote against EGLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Irwin<\/strong>&nbsp;(D\u2013Ann Arbor) today released the following statement after the Michigan Senate voted along party lines to approve&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.mi.gov\/doc.aspx?2019-HCR-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Concurrent Resolution 1<\/a>&nbsp;without amendment, striking down Gov. Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/whitmer\/0,9309,7-387-90499_90705-488736--,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Executive Order 2019-02<\/a>, that would restructure the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) into the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have constituents drinking water contaminated with PFAS who are sick and tired of having their health held hostage and feeling like they\u2019ve been forgotten. The actions by my colleagues across the aisle today have only strengthened my resolve to continue the fight for the forgotten little guy, who deserves clean water to drink and air to breathe. Michigan\u2019s families, and our kids, all deserve better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;Jeff Irwin&nbsp;(D\u2013Ann Arbor) today released the following statement after the Michigan Senate voted along party lines to approve&nbsp;House Concurrent Resolution 1&nbsp;without amendment, striking down Gov. Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s&nbsp;Executive [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5044","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. 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