"LANSING, MI — Business and industry representatives appointed to a controversial regulatory oversight board by former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder helped temporarily slow down advancing drinking water standards that would limit allowable levels of toxic fluorochemicals called PFAS in Michigan drinking water if enacted.

On Thursday, Oct. 31, the Environmental Rules Review Committee (ERRC) voted to table for two weeks any decision on whether to delay or approve draft maximum contaminant levels, or MCLs, for seven different PFAS compounds that regulators with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) are proposing.

The body, one of two created last year by the Republican-controlled Legislature, was the focus of an early showdown between Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the GOP, which overrode her attempt to abolish the panels while reorganizing the former Department of Environmental Quality in February."

Garret Ellison reports for the Grand Rapids Press October 31, 2019. [2]