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| | Michigan Land Use Institute,sprawl,non-profit,nonprofit,non profit,research,land stewardship, land use,energy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Boerma’s ready vocabulary fails her, however, when it comes to describing why she and her neighbors have spent nearly three years trying to stop state regulators from giving a mining company the right to strip 70 acres of forest and haul away this 10,000-year-old ridge of sand, which is a state-protected critical dune. |
| | So much blood is boiling in Michigan, in fact, that from St. Clair Shores and Milan Township in southeast Michigan to Petoskey and Alpena in the north, people are forming grassroots organizations to challenge the troubling non-enforcement trend. |
| | Rather than improving government, as the political rhetoric behind this ideology implied, the record in Michigan and across the nation shows that “regulatory reform” actually has eroded the environmental laws and the democratic processes that, to date, have made America the envy of the world. |
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