On Dec. 11, 2024, members of the House Appropriations Committee heard testimony on a requested transfer of $50 million in state funding to the Copperwood Mine Project in the Upper Peninsula. | Kyle Davidson
Members of the House Appropriations Committee faced an uproar on Wednesday after voting to approve subsidies for a bundle of projects, including a controversial mining project in the Upper Peninsula.
Alongside funding for the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory to construct high-performance computing facilities in Ypsilanti, updates and enhancements for a heavy-duty truck plant in Redford and funding for Dow Chemical to redo its Michigan Operations Industrial Park and Auburn Operations facilities, the Committee approved $50 million in funding for the Copperwood Mine in Gogebic County…