Posted on 04/12/2023 4:39:21 PM PDT by Libloather
Michigan Senate Democrats on Wednesday announced a sweeping bill package that aims to put legal teeth behind efforts to wean Michigan off fossil fuels.
The package, which Democratic leaders said would be filed by Thursday, would require state-regulated utilities to stop burning coal by 2030, and would require them to deliver 100 percent clean energy by 2035.
Senate Democrats spokesperson Rosie Jones initially said Wednesday that would be a renewable energy requirement but later clarified the bill would require “carbon-free” energy. She did not specify whether that leaves the door open to utilities continuing to use fossil fuels while deploying carbon capture technology or other means of offsetting emissions.
The bill package would also require utilities to prioritize energy efficiency by strengthening the state’s so-called energy waste reduction standard and applying it to more utilities.
Senate Majority Floor Leader Sam Singh, D-East Lansing, hailed the pending package as long overdue and said legislative Democrats “really wanted to focus on climate” as they enter their second quarter in power.
Singh said the package amounts to the largest rewrite of Michigan energy law since the sweeping 2016 reforms that, among other things, required utilities to get 15 percent of their energy from renewables by 2021.
“It allows protection of our residents, it protects our (electricity) rates, and then it allows for us to be able to tackle a very difficult issue of climate,” Singh said.
He added that “it's time for us to be moving beyond just goals,” instead setting new, enforceable green energy targets that utilities must meet.
Jeff Wiggins, press secretary for Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Lawton, decried the bills as “another energy plan from the ‘lost decade,’ the first decade of the 2000s when Michigan struggled against slow economic growth and low employment rates.
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Trees grow back. Burn wood. Renewable energy.
Let’s make a law that all vehicles run on unicorn farts by 2042. Hey, it’s a GOAL that we should all strive for...
They expect to have a country in 2035?
Need to seriously look at a place in Ohio.
The Democrats assume that they will be in power to implement that crap! They probably have nothing to fear on that score.
It works out really good in the winter. S/
Good luck Michies!
If there are fewer than eight years, how can we wait 12 years before being carbon free? We must act NOW!!!!!!!!
MI, controlled by moslem communists, wants to cripple the state in 2035 so that it will more closely resemble the middle east shitholes they illegally entered from...
IMHO...
“What would the chicoms do in Michigan? The exact same thing.”
Naa, they’d build TONS OF COAL PLANTS, just as they’re doing in China right now.
The beasts running the Democrat Party are in a class of their own, trying to get WW3 started just after GUTTING the military, and now purposely GUTTING the economy.
Except that freezing to death isn’t likely in the Middle East.
This comes after Ford cancel the F-150 Lightning and fired the group head after a catestrophic loss for Ford. So, Dim-Whitmer is doubling down on failed green energy?
Definitely a Democrat.
This is easy. Pump the water uphill. Then generate electricity as it flows back down. Perpetual energy!
Every thing these evil pricks get their hands on
If you live near the border you could run a long extension cord over the border and not freeze like the rest of the state.
Maybe the utilities should advise all employees that their employment will end in seven years. Start making plans. Also start shutting down and phasing out facilities. Make no plans or effort to replace them.
I foresee some cold, dark winters and hot dark summers.
Our Founders fought a bloody Revolution over a 3% tax on tea.
A couple of us have been studying ways to punish and cripple blue states.
I think the path forward has been revealed.
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