LANSING - While little legislation overhauling Michigan's utility and energy regulatory system has moved so far from the Senate Energy Policy and Public Utilities Committee, its chair, Sen. Bruce Patterson (R-Canton), said committee members are working towards resolution of the issues. But that does not necessarily mean there will be a "straight line to an
LOS ANGELES - Shell is preparing to open a fueling station in west Los Angeles later this month that will dispense gasoline or, for the right car, hydrogen. Duncan Macleod, vice president of Shell Hydrogen, provided this update during a keynote talk Tuesday at the CTSI Clean Technology conference, where he said that the Santa
DETROIT - In recent months, General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner has signaled that change was in the offing and that the company's future depended upon more fuel-efficient vehicles. So it was that today GM announced reversed its years-old strategy in what likely was a surrender to $4-plus gasoline prices at the pump for many Americans
SAN DIEGO, Ca. - Start-up Sapphire Energy is promising an innovation that sounds as miraculous as a water-to-wine transformation. On Wednesday, the company took the covers off what it calls green crude - a liquid fuel chemically identical to gasoline but, not dependent on either a food source or agricultural land. Even better, it promises
LANSING - Legislation implementing the Great Lakes compact - to give the world's largest freshwater watershed greater protection from possible diversions as well as provide new rules governing water bottling operations and internal diversions - passed the Michigan Senate and House unanimously on Wednesday. However, the Legislature did not act on some of the more
LANSING - Rep. Jeff Mayes (D-Bay City), chair of the Michigan House Agriculture Committee, said Wednesday that lawmakers in the House and Senate are still working out details of a legislative package aimed at nurturing the state's alternative fuels industry. But the panel did move forward with reporting two bills that would extend the state
LANSING �?? Michigan could designate five new renaissance zones for companies in the business of making fuel from cellulosic materials under legislation reported unanimously by the House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday. Republican members on the panel originally opposed HB 5746 , because it would designate six of the current energy renaissance zones for cellulosic firms.
ANN ARBOR �?? If you have old personal computers, speakers, monitors, printers, phones, TVs and other similar electronic gadgets gathering dust, then you�??re going to want to hear about the e-Waste Recycling event May 10 in Ann Arbor. The good folks at the Ann Arbor Public Schools and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative@the University of
LANSING - The package of bills recently passed the Michigan House to increase investment in electric generation in the state, and particularly in renewable power, will not meet that goal, the American Wind Energy Association said in a letter to Governor Jennifer Granholm and Sen. Bruce Patterson (R-Canton), whose committee is now considering the legislation.
LANSING - Soundly turning down attempts to trim its provisions, the Michigan Senate approved bills giving targeted tax breaks to Hemlock Semiconductor for a potential expansion of its solar energy panel manufacturing business. The bills providing credits worth $35 million a year for the company's high energy use were sent to the House, which had