LANSING - Major energy legislation cleared the Michigan House Energy Policy Committee on Thursday with some significant changes, including changes to the proposed renewable energy definitions and a "goal" for utilities to get 30 percent of production from renewables and energy efficiency. But advocates for expanding choice, or at least keeping it the same as
LANSING - Downriver water systems would see the same controls on their waste water as Detroit already faces under a plan released Wednesday to reduce pollutants in Lake Erie that contribute to algae blooms. The Department of Environmental Quality announced it was seeking comment on the plan that also calls for reductions in phosphorus from
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder said Tuesday night he is ready to sign a road funding proposal that will generate $1.2 billion for the state's roads and bridges by 2021 after the House and Senate gave the final green light to an amended package on Tuesday. With House passage of the key components just before 10:30
LANSING – The Bureau of Elections staff in a report to the Board of State Canvassers said Protecting Michigan Taxpayers came up short of the necessary signatures to put its voter-initiated act repealing the prevailing wage before the Michigan Legislature. The report, released Monday, said only 301 of the 509 signatures in the sample pulled
LANSING - The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs is launching a program to connect employers with foreign-born professionals, particularly in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. The Michigan International Talent Solutions program, created by the Michigan Office for New Americans within LARA, plans to offer customized job search training to skilled and permanently
LANSING - A spokesperson for the Michigan Senate majority leader said Wednesday she thinks the earliest the Senate could try again to vote on a road funding solution is next week given the expected absence of some members for the remainder of this week, though the registration fee increase in the House-passed proposal is still
LANSING - Michigan local governments would be able to make energy efficiency improvements to their buildings without incurring debt under legislation under consideration in the Michigan House Local Government Committee. The bills (HB 4990, HB 4991, HB 4992, HB 4993 and HB 4994) would allow counties, cities, villages and townships to enter lease-purchase agreements for the energy upgrades. Because the
LANSING - Nationally, cyber charter schools substantially underperformed traditional public schools, but those in Michigan were about on par with their peers, a report issued Wednesday by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University said. Overall, the report found students in cyber charter schools were 180 days behind their peers in traditional public schools
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission ordered its staff Tuesday to begin examining what public utilities are required to pay certain power generators under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. Consumers Energy and DTE Energy both have contracts with qualified facilities under the act, the first of which expire at the end
LANSING - "Heartburn" among majority Michigan Senate Republicans about relying on increasing vehicle registration fees to raise most of the new proposed revenues for roads was the major reason why the Senate dropped its plans Tuesday for a vote on House-passed legislation designed to eventually generate $1.2 billion in new road spending, Senate Majority Leader Arlan
