{"id":5174,"date":"2019-06-27T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/irwin\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2019-06-27T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:12:17","slug":"sen-irwin-on-attorney-generals-enbridge-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/irwin\/2019\/06\/27\/sen-irwin-on-attorney-generals-enbridge-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Irwin on Attorney General\u2019s Enbridge Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LANSING \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Irwin<\/strong>&nbsp;(D\u2013Ann Arbor) has issued the following statement on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/ag\/0,4534,7-359--500746--,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Attorney General Dana Nessel\u2019s lawsuit against Enbridge Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you to Attorney General Nessel for taking legal action to shut down Enbridge\u2019s Line 5 pipeline and protect the Straits of Mackinac. Every day that we don&#8217;t act to remove this 66-year-old pipeline is another day that we put our state at the risk of an environmental disaster. I stand proudly in support of our Attorney General\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn 2015, as a state representative, I held a press conference to call on former Governor Rick Snyder and former Attorney General Bill Schuette to take immediate action in initiating the termination clause in the agreement between Enbridge and the State of Michigan. Now, years later, I am pleased to have an Attorney General who will finally act. This 66-year-old pipeline must be decommissioned as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING \u2014 Sen.&nbsp;Jeff Irwin&nbsp;(D\u2013Ann Arbor) has issued the following statement on&nbsp;Attorney General Dana Nessel\u2019s lawsuit against Enbridge Inc. \u201cThank you to Attorney General Nessel for taking legal action to shut [&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-5174","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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