Clean Update

Michigan Technological University Students Seeking Solutions For Copper Millings Polluting Lake Superior Fishing Grounds

HOUGHTON - Millions of metric tons of legacy mine wastes threaten a key Lake Superior fish spawning ground and Grand Traverse Bay beaches and homes. Michigan Tech researchers and partners seek long-term solutions. Off the coast of Gay, a small northern Michigan hamlet in the Keweenaw Peninsula, a potential environmental catastrophe lurks beneath the surface.

By |2018-02-04T10:16:33-05:00February 4th, 2018|Clean Update|

Reports: Utility Customers In Electric Choice Down, As Are Cable Subscribers

LANSING - Total utility customers participating in electric choice programs in 2017 were down from the previous year, as were the number of cable subscribers in the state, according to a pair of annual reports released Thursday. The Public Service Commission released its yearly Status of Electric Competition in Michigan and Status of Competition for

By |2018-02-02T07:24:30-05:00February 2nd, 2018|Clean Update, Politics|

Michigan Public Service Commission Urges Lower Gas Rates To Reflect Lower Corporate Tax Rates

LANSING - After first inquiring with the utilities it regulates, the Michigan Public Service Commission urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to tell its interstate natural gas pipeline operators to adjust their rates in response to the lowered corporate tax rates under the new federal tax law. The MPSC said the FERC should "take immediate

By |2018-01-31T20:37:06-05:00January 31st, 2018|Clean Update, Politics|

Record Leap In 2014-2016 Global Temperatures Biggest Since 1900

ANN ARBOR - Global surface temperatures surged by a record amount from 2014 to 2016, boosting the total amount of warming since the start of the last century by more than 25 percent in just three years, according to a University of Arizona-led team that includes a University of Michigan scientist. "Our paper is the

By |2018-01-25T19:28:59-05:00January 25th, 2018|Clean Update, Featured|

Flying Slime: Harmful Algal Blooms Can Become Airborne

ANN ARBOR - Waves lapping against the shoreline is always a pretty scene, but it may also be a way for toxins from harmful algal blooms to become airborne. Harmful algal blooms—blooms composed of blue-green algae—crop up throughout the Great Lakes region during hot summers. Algae reproduces, unchecked, producing toxins and sapping oxygen from water.

By |2018-01-25T19:18:54-05:00January 25th, 2018|Clean Update|

Michigan Tech Team To Evaluate Economic, Environmental Impact If Line 5 Bursts

HOUGHTON - Michigan Technological University will lead a team of experts in evaluating the economic and environmental impacts of a “worst case scenario” spill or release from the Line 5 Straits Pipelines. The State of Michigan announced Friday that it reached a contract agreement with Michigan Tech to have Guy Meadows lead an independent risk analysis of

By |2018-01-15T20:49:35-05:00January 15th, 2018|Clean Update, Politics|

Artful Wind Turbines For Eastern Market Focus Of Crowdfunding Campaign

LANSING - Underused spaces within and around Eastern Market in Detroit will become activated with artful wind turbines through the help of a new crowdfunding campaign. The campaign, offered through the Michigan-based platform Patronicity is sponsored by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, CAN Art Handworks, and Eastern Market Corporation. If the campaign reaches its crowdfunding

By |2018-01-10T20:08:32-05:00January 10th, 2018|Clean Update|

Microscopic Defects Make Batteries Better

HOUSTON - High-performance electrodes for lithium-ion batteries can be improved by paying closer attention to their defects -- and capitalizing on them, according to Rice University scientists. Rice materials scientist Ming Tang and chemists Song Jin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Linsen Li at Wisconsin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology led a study

By |2017-12-07T13:54:36-05:00December 7th, 2017|Clean Update|

MSU Professor: Transparent Solar Is Wave Of The Future

EAST LANSING — See-through solar materials that can be applied to windows represent a massive source of untapped energy and could harvest as much power as bigger, bulkier rooftop solar units, scientists report in a recent issue of the scientific journal Nature Energy. Led by engineering researchers at Michigan State University, the authors argue that

By |2017-11-30T15:56:54-05:00November 30th, 2017|Clean Update, Featured, IoT|

Tunnel Eyed For Line 5; Critics Call Deal Premature

LANSING - An agreement between the state of Michigan and Enbridge Energy Partners on the Line 5 oil pipeline calls for a series of safety measures such as moving it beneath the St. Clair River and a study into putting it underneath the Straits of Mackinac as well, but the state says shutting down the

By |2017-11-28T16:35:01-05:00November 28th, 2017|Clean Update, Featured, Politics|