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June Meeting: Ford’s Path to Sustainability

GRAND RAPIDS - West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will present a luncheon program featuring one of the nation?s leading sustainability practitioners June 23 at the University Club in Grand Rapids. The forum is presented by Warner Norcross & Judd. John Viera, the global director of sustainability at Ford Motor Co. has helped to bring a

By |2014-06-16T00:00:00-04:00June 16th, 2014|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

2 NextEnergy Projects Named Finalists In SmartAmerica Challenge

DETROIT - Two NextEnergy demonstration programs were selected by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as finalists in the SmartAmerica Challenge. Two teams comprised of NextEnergy and four Detroit-area companies representED Michigan at the SmartAmerica Expo in Washington D.C. on June 11. The SmartAmerica Challenge was created to advance developments in the

By |2014-06-13T00:00:00-04:00June 13th, 2014|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

Peters Critical Of Proposed EPA Emissions Rules; Land Shifts On Climate Change

LANSING - The proposed emission rules announced earlier this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would be more stringent on Michigan than other Midwestern states and changes should be made to the proposal, U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, the Democratic candidate for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, said on Wednesday. Peters made his comments two

By |2014-06-05T00:00:00-04:00June 5th, 2014|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

DTE Energy Buying Wind Parks In Thumb Area

BROOKFIELD TOWNSHIP - DTE Energy Co. is buying one of two Pheasant Run wind parks in Michigan from a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC. The Detroit-based utility announced Monday that the 75-megawatt Pheasant Run II wind park in Huron County will be renamed the Brookfield Wind Park. Operating since earlier this year, it will

By |2014-06-05T00:00:00-04:00June 5th, 2014|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

EPA’s Carbon Standard Gets Mixed Response

LANSING - The state is already on track to meet the carbon emissions standard the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set for power plants, one of the state's major utilities and environmental groups said Monday. The EPA has proposed standards that would reduce carbon emissions 30 percent by 2030 from those levels in 2005. "It's highly

By |2014-06-03T00:00:00-04:00June 3rd, 2014|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

Michigan House Panel Exploring Expanded Renewables, Natural Gas Service

LANSING - The Michigan House Energy and Technology Committee began exploring bills Tuesday that would expand the items considered renewable fuels and would allow natural gas utilities to expand their service territories. But the bills saw objections from groups that argued, respectively, they would allow non-renewable resources to be considered renewable and would allow expansion

By |2014-05-21T00:00:00-04:00May 21st, 2014|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|