LANSING - Businesses located in Michigan in border communities would be permitted to count as a "qualified new job" individuals who reside out-of-state or in Canada when applying for economic assistance from the 21st Century Investment Programs and Activities under legislation reported by a Senate committee Thursday. SB 40 is a reintroduction of a bill
ANN ARBOR - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said it will conduct a preliminary examination of a large dioxane plume in and around Ann Arbor that has gotten in the surface water system to establish if it would qualify for federal Superfund status. The Chicago office of the EPA notified local officials and the
LANSING - The Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday gathered to urge Congress to refrain from repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless an alternative plan with the similar protections is established, Dr. Sharon Swindell, the president-elect of the Michigan chapter and a pediatrician in Ypsilanti, said 600,000 Michigan residents
LANSING - The surprising announcement some two weeks ago that Consumers Energy would end an agreement to by electric power from the Palisades nuclear plan has led the Public Service Commission on Tuesday to call on the utility to provide additional information on its decision. In its call for more information, the PSC has also
LANSING - The Department of Technology, Management and Budget did not ensure that it had identified the state's most critical technology systems and, for those it had identified, it did not ensure that they could be restored within deadlines, a report released Thursday by Auditor General Doug Ringler said. The state designates certain systems as
LANSING - The final legislative session day of the 98th Legislature concluded with passage of the legislation that has dominated the 2015-16 term - a wide-ranging rewrite of the state's energy laws. Governor Rick Snyder, who brokered the 11th-hour deal with the utilities and advocates for greater customer choice who fought bitterly for the past
LANSING - Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof on Tuesday confirmed the end of several controversial initiatives passed by the Michigan House last week on a day otherwise consumed with recesses and caucuses. Among those proposals was a bill to tighten up voter identification (HB 6067), bills regulating picketing and striking workers (HB 4643 and HB
LANSING - The news that the aging and troubled Palisades nuclear power plant in Van Buren County would close in 2018 provided the latest twist to the ongoing energy debate in the Michigan House, where backers of legislation overhauling key regulations are down to three session days remaining to get a bill out of the
GRAND RAPIDS - Melissa Birnie interviews Cory Hohs, CEO/Cofounder of HAAS Alert to discuss HAAS Alert's journey to the top in the connected transportation industry with their mobile vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication platform. Hass Alert has received the 'Top 10 Automotive Startup of the Year' award by Fortune Magazine and the TiECon20 award at the recent TiECon Midwest Conference. They are
LANSING - Utility providers met a combined average of 121 percent of their electric energy savings targets and 117 percent of their natural gas energy savings targets in 2015, the Public Service Commission's latest report on utility energy optimization programs released Wednesday shows. The combined savings targets account for 1 percent of retail sales for
