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MI Energy MI Jobs submits 500,000 signatures in support of RPS Ballot initiative

By on July 9, 2012

Michigan Energy Michigan Jobs, bipartisan coalition of Michigan businesses, labor organizations, health care advocates and other groups working to increase Michigan's Renewable Portfolio Standard through a ballot intiative, has submitted over 500,000 signatures to the Bureau of Elections. The group needed 322,000 to bring the measure to the ballot in November.

The ballot measure seeks to increase the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard to 25% of by 2025, up from the existing rule, which sees 10% renewable energy by 2015. 

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