Recently, The Detroit Free Press ran a two part article on how several Michigan-based commercial processors are actively polluting our state ecology with hazardous waste byproducts. This is certainly not a new issue as these commercial practices are decades old. Manufacturing, for many years, has levied a heavy toll on our waterways, air and ground water systems through the years. Landfills have changed the landscape. Commercial shipping has introduced invasive species into the greatest concentration of fresh water on the planet. The pursuit of profit has made a few wealthy and left the people of Michigan left holding the check.