Recent Sign-Ons

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UPEC is often asked to sign on to letters on a variety of environmental topics. The Board considers each one before deciding whether to sign on. Here is a sampling of some of the ones we’ve signed on to in recent months.

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• Opposing Trump Administration rollback of National Environmental Policy Act

• Supporting Paw and Fin Act, to restore provisions of the Endangered Species Act rolled back by Trump Administration

• Opposing proposed nuclear storage site near Lake Huron

• Calling on Department of the Interior to suspend public comment periods during the Covid-19 crisis

• Opposing unconditional bailouts of the aviation industry

• Urging Congress to consider illegal wildlife trade as root cause of Covid-19

• Supporting a tax credit for all taxpayers, not just itemizers, in the coronavirus relief bill

• Requesting extension of public comment periods for all Forest Service projects during Covid-19

• Urging Congress to increase funding for monarch butterfly conservation

• Endorsing UP Energy Task Force Committee Recommendations on Propane Supply

• Requesting that the Office of Management & Budget pause all rulemaking, permitting, and comment periods for oil, gas, and mining for the duration of the COVID-19

• Opposing bailouts of marginal uranium companies

• Requesting that Governor Whitmer put the Line 5 permitting process on hold

• Asking for various clean water priorities in Covid-19 relief packages

• Opposing Covid-19 relief bills that bail out Big Oil