DC Cook

Some of Michigan’s largest polluting corporations are receiving millions in tax breaks for installing environmental control equipment that is required under state and federal law. With the state facing an ongoing budget crisis, some say these tax breaks have become a costly and unnecessary entitlement program.

The Michigan Dept. of Community Health announced today that beginning Oct. 1 it will offer a free one day supply of potassium iodide tablets to people who spend time within ten miles of the state’s three nuclear power plants.
In the unlikely event of a nuclear power plant incident, a radioactive iodine release could occur. Radioactive [...]