LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — It looks like Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s rewrite of her reorganization of the Department of Environmental Quality will not face opposition in the State Senate, after she decided to leave in two of the disputed oversite boards created by the Legislature last year.
She told us while she was in Kalamazoo Thursday that it was a compromise so she could begin addressing water problems in the state.
Senate Leader Mike Shirkey announced they would not challenge her Executive Order again, because they were happy with her changes.
Whitmer is still waiting for an opinion from the Attorney General on whether the oversite panels are lawful under the State Constitution, so we may not have heard the last word on the issue.
(copy written John McNeill)
