LANSING - Attorney General Mike Cox urged the Michigan Legislature to reject efforts by Detroit Edison and Consumers Energy to eliminate electric customer choice in the name of additional capacity. He said efforts to impose a renewable portfolio standard should be sold as an effort to help the environment, not the economy. Whatever the goals
LANSING - Adopting a Michigan renewable portfolio standard that would require that at least 10 percent of the state's energy came from renewable sources by 2015 could force energy cost increases of as much as 39 percent, a spokesperson for the auto industry told the Senate Energy Policy and Public Utilities Committee on Thursday. But
LANSING ? The top priorities for the Great Lakes Commission when it meets with Congress this week will be to require standardized treatment of ballast waters and to find more funding to fight the sea lamprey already in the lakes and to prevent the Asian carp from reaching them. Leading the charge on these issues
LANSING - Discussion on a proposed substitute to legislation that would enact portions of the Great Lakes Compact by setting the regulatory standards for allowing water withdrawals in the state began on Wednesday in the Senate Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee. The committee did not act on SB 860 , though it may at
LIVONIA ? Jim Croce, chief executive officer at NextEnergy Center, will discuss business opportunities in alternative energy on March 19 during Madonna University's next McManus Lecture. Croce lecture topic is called The Green Giant: Finding Economic Opportunity in the Emerging Alternative Energy Sector. ?Attendees will learn how alternative energy can advance Michigan?s economy while reducing
ONEKAMA ? It's not too late to submit a proposal to present a workshop session at the 2008 Michigan Energy Fair to be held in June. The deadline for workshop proposals is 5 p.m. Feb. 29. The Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association is currently seeking proposals for workshop sessions to be presented at the 3rd
LANSING - Private property rights advocates in the Ohio Senate and Wisconsin Assembly pressured Great Lakes states Wednesday to revise a proposed multi-state agreement that would limit major diversions of water from the basin. Ohio Senate President Bill Harris (R-Ashland) joined Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Michael Huebsch (R-West Salem) in announcing both chambers would move expeditiously
CHICAGO - Joel Maguire, General Motors' global innovation manager for hybrid systems, says the automaker achieved a balance with GMC Denali XT concept - a flex-fuel powered, two Mode hybrid based on GM's Zeta rear wheel drive platform that was developed at the company's Holden division in Australia. The Zeta platform is already used in
NEW YORK - After Acura displayed its new i-DTEC 2.2L four-cylinder diesel engine at the Detroit Auto Show and announced it would debut in a US market Acura model in 2009, speculation immediately began about which model would be selected. The speculation is over with Honda's announcement it will tap the TSX as its first
DETROIT - In part two of the Hydrogen Forecast's discussion with Larry Burns, the GM technology guru turns to the automaker's competitors and the race to bring fuel cell vehicles into the mainstream market. In the arena of fuel cell development, companies such as Honda, Daimler, Ford - and of course GM - have been