After Republican lawmakers killed Gretchen Whitmer’s environmental shakeup, what’s next?

LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order to restructure environmental regulation — fulfilling campaign promises to act on Michigan’s tainted water and climate change — lasted all of 10 days.

The Republican-controlled Senate officially killed that plan Thursday following a series of party-line votes.

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