2005 Senate Bill 73 ↩

Senate Roll Call 98: Passed

To establish start dates for air pollution nonattainment area offsets, and require the Department of Environmental Quality to provide information about the offsets on its web site. This relates to a federal finding that a large section of western Michigan may be forced to undertake drastic pollution reduction strategies as a result of pollution drifting east from Chicago. The “offsets” are pollution “credits” that may be purchased by a facility where emissions reductions are difficult, from one that has already reduced or eliminated emissions.