Whitmer axes Environmental Rules Review Committee

Whitmer axes Environmental Rules Review Committee - By James David Dickson 

• Snyder-era committee was designed as a check on state regulators

"...Gov. Rick Snyder created the Environmental Rules Review Committee in 2018 to let businesses in Michigan have some say about the regulations that would affect them. 

Eliminating the committee will cut red tape and make government more efficient, Whitmer’s office claimed in a press release Tuesday...
“The whole purpose of (the bills creating the committee) was to force the department to listen to the voices of the public, science, and those being regulated by the department,” Sen. Ed McBroom, R-Waucedah Township, said in a statement. 

“The committee was created by (Casperson) in response to innumerable instances of the department promulgating rules that then created frustration and confusion across the board — treating spilled raw milk and dirt from sugar beets as ‘industrial waste.’ Rules were forced upon citizens and businesses — even after they attempted to show the department how ineffective, non-scientific, or impossible the goals were.”