LANSING - Urban farms with livestock cannot be verified as following proper environmental practices under standards approved, with some reservations, Wednesday by the Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. The new Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program standards follow recent generally accepted agriculture management practices that say category 4 farms, those in high population residential areas,
DETROIT - Chesapeake Energy Corporation has been ordered to stand trial on racketeering and false pretenses charges, Attorney General Bill Schuette said on Tuesday. Cheboygan County District Judge Maria Barton cleared the way for the Oklahoma-based firm to face trial for allegedly defrauding private landowners across the state by basically tricking them to commit to
ANN ARBOR -- Michigan League of Conservation Voters announced Tuesday this year?s honorees for the Second Annual Innovation in Conservation Awards Dinner. Conservation champions and retiring members of Congress, Senator Carl Levin and Congressman John Dingell, will receive Michigan LCV?s Lifetime Achievement Awards, Ford Motor Company will be honored as Business of the Year, and
DETROIT - NextEnergy will be a tour stop at ITS World Congress Detroit, where it will demonstrate the future for smart energy and transportation technology with Qualcomm and Chrysler Group. Jean Redfield, NextEnergy President and CEO, said she expects upwards of 10,000 professionals to be in Detroit next week for the conference with about a
DETROIT - NextEnergy has awarded a $35,000 Michigan Accelerating Technology (MATch) Energy Grant to University of Michigan Professor Jeff Sakamoto for development of an ultra-high energy, safe, low-cost, solid-state electrolyte technology for energy storage. The new technology will be used in an all solid-state rechargeable battery, resulting in higher vehicle range and miles per charge
ANN ARBOR ? Sakti announced that it has produced a battery cell on fully scalable equipment with over 1100 Watt hours per liter (Wh/l) in volumetric energy density. This translates to more than double the usage time in a wearable device like a smartwatch, from 3.5 h to more than 9 h. It also translates
LANSING ? The Department of Environmental Quality is offering $10,000 in grants to help Michigan institutions develop sustainable, green laboratory practices and projects. The funding is available through DEQ?s Michigan Green Labs Initiative, a collaborative grant effort to assist institutions and share best practices for minimizing the environmental impacts of their laboratory operations. The project
CHICAGO - One large clean transportation project and a much smaller clean energy project were enough to vault Michigan into the Top 10 in a new ranking of clean jobs, according to a report issued today by the nonprofit, nonpartisan business group Environmental Entrepreneurs. Michigan?s strong showing took place despite mixed signals from some of
LANSING - Michigan Saves, the state's largest nonprofit energy financing organization, is getting the word out to residents that the Home Energy Loan Program can be used for many home improvements they may be facing due to the recent flooding in Southeast Michigan. Many residents will need to address furnaces that have been damaged by
GRAND RAPIDS - West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will present a retrospective on 20 years of sustainable business in West Michigan on September 8 at the Grand Rapids Public Library Main Branch from to discuss how a diverse cross-section of industry and community initiatives coalesced to make the region a national hub for sustainable business.