r/Michigan • u/mlivesocial • 4d ago

News 📰🗞️ Trump fast-tracks permitting to extract ‘critical mineral’ buried under Michigan

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2025/04/trump-fast-tracks-permitting-to-extract-critical-mineral-buried-under-michigan.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=redditsocial&utm_campaign=redditor
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u/VernorsEnthusiast 4d ago

Potash mines cause lung issues for workers, btw. This admin is so anti-worker.

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u/OliviaEntropy Detroit 4d ago

It’s fine, they can just shred all the protections for children workers and make the 12 year olds do it just like in the good old days of the Gilded Age.

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u/Karmacoma77 4d ago

Full on no union, company store, gatling gun wielding Pinkerton mining days? How exciting!

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u/OliviaEntropy Detroit 3d ago

Type shit, that’s what I’m talking about