LANSING – Heads will soon be rolling at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality where officials failed to follow proper treatment and testing protocols when Flint moved from the Detroit water system to drawing from the Flint River and took too long to fix the problem once they discovered their error. Environmental Quality Director Dan Wyant said
HOUGHTON — The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a workshop at Michigan Technological University on Oct. 16 and 17, to explore some of the most compelling issues of our time centering on the basics of life: food, energy, water and climate. What’s best for the environment — and for sustaining life on our changing planet
EAST LANSING - A new $1 million relationship between Michigan State University and ExxonMobil will expand research designed to progress the fundamental science required to advance algae-based fuels. David Kramer, MSU’s John Hannah Distinguished Professor in Photosynthesis and Bioenergetics at the MSU-DOE Plant and Research Laboratory, says the overall goal of the partnership is to
WARREN – If Michigan doubles its use of wind energy to generate electricity, consumers could save $3.59 billion by the year 2050, while farmers and land owners on which these gigantic wind towers stand could receive millions more each year in land-lease payments, says a new report issued Thursday. A wind vision for new
LANSING - A local government would be able to adopt an ordinance to prevent, control or eradicate aquatic invasive species in waters within the its boundaries and impose fees if an aquatic invasive species were present in the waters under legislation discussion by the Michigan Senate Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday. The fees collected -
LANSING - The Michigan Agency for Energy is putting money toward energy efficiency improvements including solar panels at its Lansing offices, the agency said in a statement Monday. In doing so, the agency will become the first energy agency in the nation to make improvements using Property Assessed Clean Energy financing. Using the financing method
LANSING – Want to learn more about advanced lighting products? Then NextEnergy’s Michigan Advanced Lighting Conference may be for you. Registration opened Tuesday for the Oct. 29 one-day conference at the Radisson Hotel Lansing at the Capitol. This year’s conference continues its focus on LED (also known as solid-state) technology, which provides building owners the
WARREN - A former Farmer Jack grocery store that Wayne State University renovated into its Advanced Technology Education Center has been certified as the university’s first ever LEED Gold building because it uses 30 percent less energy than a standard building of its size and use. The 40,000 square-foot ATEC opened in fall 2014. Gold is
GREEN BAY - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy on Wednesday announced the expansion of the Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge to include most of St. Martin Island and all of Rocky Island in Lake Michigan. The expansion adds another 1,290 acres to the 330-acre refuge, part of the Grand Traverse
EAST LANSING - Richard Lunt, of the Michigan State University College of Engineering, has been awarded the 2015 Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship, a national prize from the American Physical Society to support research in energy sustainability. The award, named for Stanford R. Ovshinsky, encourages the development of low-cost technologies that do not rely on fossil
