Supplemental bill passed in Senate tonight includes $500,000 for Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy to monitor hazardous waste sites and practices
LANSING, Mich. (Feb. 28, 2023) — After securing $500,000 in funding for increased oversight and monitoring of hazardous waste sites like the Romulus Deep Well Injection Site, Sen. Darrin Camilleri (D-Trenton) issued the following statement:
“We need to be watching privately-owned facilities like this closely to make sure they’re keeping our land, our water, and our communities safe, and also to make sure that events like last week don’t ever happen again,” said Sen. Camilleri, who helped halt shipments of toxic material from the East Palestine train derailment to the Romulus Deep Well Injection site last week. “We need to take a hard look at what’s being deposited into these privately-owned wells, which we’re already doing as part of a larger conversation, but this funding will improve our oversight and monitoring capabilities in the meantime.”
This supplemental budget bill, House Bill 4016, passed the Senate tonight and now heads to the House. The bill also includes funding for infrastructure investments and improvements to Marshall, Michigan, to prepare the area for a next-generation lithium battery facility being built by Ford, and money for Michigan-based construction company Walbridge to build the facility. The bill also secures funding for a number of important priorities, including: water affordability, hospital staffing retention, nursing home rate increases, health workforce stabilization, community violence intervention, housing, and community and neighborhood grants.
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