LANSING - There are three major problems in Michigan and labor and environmental activists united Wednesday to back environmentally friendly jobs as a way to solve all three issues at once, said officials with the BlueGreen Alliance at a news conference Wednesday. "There are three crises in Michigan," said Mark Schauer, a former U.S. House
ANN ARBOR - Doug Selby, President of Meadowlark Builders has been named a finalist for the prestigious 2011 Fred Case Remodeling Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Selby was chosen by a highly esteemed panel of judges from Case Design/Remodeling, Inc., Hanley-Wood and Harvard University?s Joint Center for Housing Studies. The judging was based on four
LANSING - Citizens and environmental groups have joined forces in an attempt to slow down the natural gas rush they say is underway in Michigan. Representatives of Clean Water Action, the Sierra Club and Progress Michigan want hydraulic fracturing methods used to extract gas from deep wells stopped until safety and health concerns are addressed
MUSKEGON - High school and community college students have been invited to display their renewable energy or sustainable business ideas at MAREC's first annual Renewable Energy and Technology Science Fair (RE-Fair) May 23 at the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center. The incentive of a friendly competition has been shown to promote deeper learn-ing as
LANSING - Two environmental organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Environmental Quality, charging it violated state rules when it issued an air pollution permit for the expansion of a Holland coal-fired power plant. In the suit, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Fund charged that the then Department of Natural
AUBURN HILLS - Solar panel maker Energy Conversion Devices on Tuesday filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission an announcement of a huge loss for its third fiscal quarter ended March 31 and the resignation of president and CEO Mark Morelli. The company also is laying off 300 employees, most in Michigan. ECD said
LANSING - The Department of Environmental Quality will be required to complete process improvement of major programs under HB 4016 , and state departments responsible for routine inspections would be directed to randomly select persons or companies for performing inspections under HB 4017. Both bills were unanimously reported Wednesday from the House Regulatory Reform Committee.
HOLLAND A company that has developed a new way of manufacturing windmill blades was awarded the first "Reinventing Michigan" award by Governor Rick Snyder on Wednesday. At a ceremony at Energetx Composites LLC, Snyder said the firm was an example of the innovative corporate spirit the state needed to foster to rebuild itself. The company
WARREN - On Dec. 14, 2010, Property Assessed Clean Energy Bond legislation was signed into law by then Gov. Jennifer Granholm. PACE bonds are a municipal bond where the proceeds are lent to commercial property owners to finance energy efficiency measures and renewable energy systems. The owners of these energy retrofits subsequently repay their loans
WARREN - How can an electrical generating plant that burns coal and wastes about two-thirds of its energy possibly be considered ?green?? When that waste energy is used to heat or cool thousands of office workers and apartment dwellers who keep warm or cool by way of a district energy system. In a previous article,