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Consumers Energy Announces Leadership Moves

JACKSON - Consumers Energy on Thursday announced four leadership moves, partly driven by the retirement of several top executives. The planned leadership moves announced today occur in light of pending retirements of Ronn Rasmussen, vice president of strategy and research and a 37-year employee, and Jack Hanson, senior vice president of energy resources and a

By |2015-01-29T00:00:00-05:00January 29th, 2015|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

Michigan Faces Barriers To Implementing Advanced Energy Systems

LANSING - Michigan faces a range of barriers to successfully implementing advanced energy systems and competing with other states for the economic benefits that come with such an industry, a report released Monday by the Institute for Energy Innovation concluded. The report comes at a time when interests from across the energy sector are landing

By |2015-01-26T00:00:00-05:00January 26th, 2015|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

VW, BMW, Chargepoint To Collaborate On Electric Vehicle Charging Network

WASHINGTON DC - At the 2015 Washington Auto Show, Volkswagen BMW, together with ChargePoint, the largest electric vehicle charging network, announced an initiative to create express charging corridors along heavily-traveled routes on the East and West Coasts. Designed to increase the number of fast charging locations, the initiative will help meet the large and growing

By |2015-01-22T00:00:00-05:00January 22nd, 2015|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

Michigan League Of Conservation Voters Calls Governor Snyder?s State Of The State Address A Call To Action For Strong Clean Energy Policy This Year

LANSING - Michigan League of Conservation Voters recognized Governor Snyder for naming energy as a priority in 2015, and said that Michigan cannot afford to delay any longer on a strong energy plan that moves our state towards greater use of clean energy. Michigan LCV gave the Governor a ?neutral? score on How Green is

By |2015-01-21T00:00:00-05:00January 21st, 2015|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

February Meeting Examines Governor’s Recycling Initiative

GRAND RAPIDS - West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will present a luncheon on the Governor?s Recycling Initiative on February 9 at Grand Rapids Brewing Company in downtown Grand Rapids. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has announced a statewide plan designed to increase access to residential recycling throughout the state. He has appointed a nine-member Michigan Recycling

By |2015-01-19T00:00:00-05:00January 19th, 2015|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

Michigan Attains Compliance With Federal Air Standards

LANSING - The entire state of Michigan is now officially in compliance with federal particulates standards, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a final rule issued late Thursday. The rule designates much of the country, including all of Michigan, as meeting the PM-2.5 standard, which limits the concentration of particles 2.5 micrometers in diameter.

By |2015-01-19T00:00:00-05:00January 19th, 2015|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

UM, Joins Michigan Tech To Test Oxygen Sensors In Portage Waterway

HOUGHTON - Research partners from the University of Michigan and the University of Hawaii joined Michigan Tech's Great Lakes Research Center scientists and engineers to deploy 17 last Friday afternoon under-ice research instruments 16 feet below the frozen Portage Waterway. The instruments included an underwater video camera, water testing equipment, a hydrophone and an underwater

By |2015-01-13T00:00:00-05:00January 13th, 2015|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

Brownwashing: Do Companies Underreport Environmental Progress?

ANN ARBOR - While some companies have been criticized for overstating their environmental credentials - a practice known as greenwashing - a new University of Michigan study has found that some do just the opposite. This lesser-known phenomenon of understating environmental efforts is referred to as brownwashing. "When we first saw the data, it took

By |2015-01-08T00:00:00-05:00January 8th, 2015|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

PSC Chair Expects Work To Continue On Energy Law

LANSING ? Michigan Public Service Commission Chair John Quackenbush is targeting 2015 as the right year for the state to update its energy policy last overhauled in 2008, he told Gongwer News Service in an interview, with the intent being to, ideally, set a path beginning in 2016. In 2008, the state passed and then-Governor

By |2014-12-25T00:00:00-05:00December 25th, 2014|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|