Stabenow, Peters, Kildee Introduce Resolution Opposing Nuclear Waste Storage Site in Great Lakes Basin
March 15, 2017
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As posted online at U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow's (Democrat-Michigan) website.

Stabenow and her Democratic junior U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, as well as U.S. Representative Dan Kildee (Democratic-Flint Twp., MI) continue to lead a bicameral, bipartisan coalition of members of congress, striving to protect the Great Lakes against Canada's proposed shoreline radioactive waste dump.

As listed in the press release, the coalition currently includes:

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Al Franken (D-MN), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) are also original co-sponsors of the Senate resolution.  Mike Bishop (MI-08), Debbie Dingell (MI-12), David Joyce (OH-14), Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Mark Pocan (WI-02), David Trott (MI-11), Jackie Walorski (IN-02), Luis Gutiérrez (IL-04), Sander Levin (MI-09), Paul Mitchell (MI-10), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), and John Moolenaar (MI-04) are also original co-sponsors of the House resolution.

If YOUR U.S. Senator(s) and U.S. Representative are included above, please contact them and thank them.

If NOT, please urge your U.S. Senator(s) and Representative to add their name as a co-sponsor!

You can phone your U.S. Senators' and U.S. Representative's D.C. offices via the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

You can also look up your U.S. Senators' D.C., as well as in-state, office phone numbers (and also online email web forms) at this helpful Center for Biological Diversity directory.

And you can look up the contact info. for your U.S. Senators here; you can look up the contact info. for your U.S. Representative here.

Update on March 15, 2017 by Registered Commenteradmin

TV 6 in Michigan's U.P. has reported on this story.

Update on April 5, 2017 by Registered Commenteradmin

Also see "Nuclear Tomb: A Town Divided," as reported by CTV's program W5.

The report features such opponents to the DUD (short for Deep Underground Dump) as U.S. Representative Dan Kildee (Democrat-Michigan, a leader of the bipartisan, bicameral U.S. congressional effort described above), representatives from Great Lakes Environmental Alliance (GLEA) in the Port Huron, Michigan area, representatives from Save Our Saugeen Shores (SOS) Great Lakes, and other concerned residents who lives in the shadows of Bruce Nuclear Generating Station and its proposed DUD.

Article originally appeared on Beyond Nuclear (https://archive.beyondnuclear.org/).
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