LANSING - More than 122,000 Michigan residents now work in clean energy industries in every county in the state according to a new analysis of energy jobs data from Clean Energy Trust and the national, nonpartisan business group E2, short for Environmental Entrepreneurs. Michigan’s clean energy workforce now employs more than all the waiters and
DETROIT - A U.S. District judge in South Carolina has held the federal Environmental Protection Agency did not follow federal administrative procedures when it issued a new rule governing the Great Lakes and other U.S. waters and has held implementation of the rule. The action means that Michigan and most the other Great Lakes states
GRAND RAPIDS - Grand Valley State University researchers have found the benefits outweigh the costs of Grand Rapids’ investment in green infrastructure to limit stormwater runoff. Advocates say the findings are significant for quantifying the environmental benefits of projects that cost more upfront compared to traditional “gray infrastructure” that simply diverts stormwater to the Grand River,
DETROIT - DTE Energy broke ground last week on a project with Wisconsin-based Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy to begin creating renewable natural gas generated from dairy cow waste as a fuel to power compressed natural gas vehicles, offsetting the use of fossil-based fuels. DTE has launched a broad sustainability initiative that will cut methane emissions by
WALKER - Meijer plans to join the sustainability movement by switching all its stores to LED interior lighting by 2021. The change is expected to save the regional retail giant as much as 50 percent annually in electricity charges. Meijer first implemented an all-LED store in Beavercreek, Ohio, in 2013. The project launched in June
TRAVERSE CITY - Toyota on Monday unveiled the second iteration of its hydrogen fuel cell electric Class 8 truck before dozens of press and industry leaders during the first day of the Center for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars. The new truck, known internally as "Beta," expands on the capabilities of Toyota’s first Project Portal
LANSING - Both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality failed to comply with the federal Lead and Copper Rule and were too slow to react when problems were found with the Flint water system, an EPA Office of Inspector General report released Thursday said. The report found that the DEQ, in
LANSING — Michigan state agencies have released for public comment a draft independent analysis of the impacts of a potential oil spill from Enbridge Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac. A team led by Michigan Technological University and directed by professor Guy Meadows of Michigan Tech’s Great Lakes Research Center submitted the draft report
LANSING - Consumer Energy Alliance Tuesday announced the start of an initiative that will launch specifically in Michigan to educate families and small businesses about wind energy production and the new investment, jobs, opportunities and environmental stewardship that comes with it. The new initiative comes at a time when anti-energy activists across the state are looking
JACKSON — Consumers Energy announced this week that it would file an Integrated Resource Plan with the Michigan Public Service Commission to zero out its use of coal as a power source and hit 37 percent renewables by 2030 and 43 percent to 2040, up from 11 percent today. The company the plan would help
