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Lizzie Grater

25 x '25: Creating a new renewable energy standard for Michigan : NPR - 0 views

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  • Republican consulting firm.
  • allows us to use manufacturing capacity in Michigan rather than bringing in $1.6 billion worth of coal from West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
  • keeps dollars in our state and it keeps us at the cutting age of new types of manufacturing technology,”
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  • Democra
  • jobs it’ll bring to the state and the environmental benefits of renewable energy
  • it gives Michigan cleaner and healthier air and water
  • We’re increasing about 1 and a half to 2 percent a year. So, this would increase us another 15 percent over 10 years – so, about 1 and a half percent a year. So, it’s a nice, steady transition to cleaner energy.
  • residents have health care costs and damages of about $1.5 billion a year – just from those nine oldest coal plants
  • significa
  • nt dent in those health costs that we are currently occurring
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