GRAND RAPIDS - Despite facing an uphill battle of legislation and regulation, 21 million fully and semi-autonomous vehicles will be sold globally by 2035, according to a forecast from Southfield-based IHS Automotive released Tuesday. The U.S. is expected to lead the way with initial deployment and early adoption of autonomous vehicles as it works through
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Thursday assessed a fine of $518,800 on Consumers Energy Company for violating rules related to its estimated billing practices. The PSC, on January 19, opened an investigation into the utility's estimated billing practices after hearing complaints from customers for "years," it said in a statement on the matter
WHITMORE LAKE – Polypropylene-based compounds manufacturer RheTech LLC has received the Pollution Prevention Award from the Washtenaw County Environmental Excellence Partnership Program. The Environmental Excellence Partnership Program (E2P2) recognizes businesses and non-profits that provide leadership in environmental protection and practice environmentally sound behavior in the areas of water quality protection, waste reduction and recycling, and pollution prevention.
BENTON HARBOR - Michigan’s Great Southwest Sustainable Business Forum will host a program and tour at The Golf Club at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor June 13 to tell the story behind one of Michigan's most significant redevelopment projects in a generation. Host to last month's 2016 Senior PGA Championship, the Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course
ANN ARBOR - Farmland runoffs containing fertilizers and livestock waste from the Upper Midwest will create this summer an oxygen-depleted “dead zone” the size of Connecticut in the Gulf of Mexico that could suffocate marine life in the 5,898 square mile hypoxic zone. This forecast was released Thursday by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
GRAND RAPIDS - Today's cities are facing many common challenges in the areas of safety, emissions, accessibility, and congestion. Detroit's NextEnergy thinks innovation is an important mechanism to proactively address the challenges facing cities to identify opportunities for new business models. Therefore, the non-profit has developed a national competition NextChallenge: Smart Cities which focuses on
LANSING - Two bills making major changes to Michigan’s utility and electric energy system, but still maintaining some provisions from the 2008 energy legislation especially with small generators of alternative energy, were reported to the full Senate this afternoon by the Senate Energy and Technology Committee. The bills are the latest substitutes to SB 437
DETROIT - Hyundai has big plans for the “eco” market, with the maker planning to introduce 26 new hybrid, plug-in, battery-electric and fuel-cell vehicles between now and 2020, a blitz that begins with this year’s launch of the new Ioniq model. The challenge, said the head of the Korean carmaker’s green car program, will be
ANN ARBOR - For the second time in as many weeks, an environmental remediation professional is warning that people living near Ann Arbor's West Park could be exposed to the toxic chemical dioxane. Dan Bicknell, president of Global Environment Alliance LLC, recently investigated the potential for basements in the West Park area to flood with
LANSING - U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell and U.S. Rep. Candice Miller joined in a statement Thursday urging Governor Rick Snyder to vote against a plan to allow Waukesha, Wisconsin, to draw water from Lake Michigan. A regional advisory body had given its nod to the plan this week with some substantial changes to the city's
