LANSING - The nation's first commercial ethanol plant using a chemical process to convert wood waste products will be located in Chippewa County south of Sault Ste. Marie, state officials and Massachusetts-based Mascoma Corporation said Friday. The $250 million project will benefit from a $15 million state grant. The announcement of specific plans for the
LANSING - Michigan Energy regulation legislation sparked and temporarily shorted out, but then was regenerated and passed during a late night session in the Senate on Friday. Critics charged that the bill would drive costs up on residents by allowing utilities DTE Energy and Consumers Energy to re-monopolize the electric system in the state. Just
LANSING - Michigan Senate members have spent much of the week discussing energy policy, but not in public. With lawmakers hoping to finish work for the summer on Friday the chance that the Senate may act on energy bills looms large. Sen. Cameron Brown (R-Fawn River Twp.) told reporters Thursday there may be a series
LANSING - In a meeting marked by alarms over lost revenue and confrontational politics, the Michigan House Tax Policy Committee gave unanimous approval Thursday to a bill easing the tax liability for a wide array of companies under the Michigan Business Tax. Discussions were to continue over how to replace the lost revenue - some
LANSING - The Great Lakes Compact and ensuing water withdrawal legislation are officially out of the hands of the Legislature as the House wrapped up its work on the legislation Thursday. That follows work completed by the Senate the day prior on the legislative package. The House concurred in Senate changes to the bills and
LANSING - Ten years after Michigan's Department of State launched online renewal for vehicle and watercraft license plates, some 4.6 million online transactions have been recorded, including more than 4.4 million vehicles. Records continue to be set as more people choose to do business with the department online. In March, there were 95,808 vehicle and
LANSING - Michigan Legislative leaders and the governor approved target figures for the 2008-09 budget Wednesday, which include a 2 percent increase to revenue sharing as well as a slight hike for the state's community colleges and public universities, with conference committee work beginning early Thursday. The agreement calls for across-the-board decreases for departmental budgets.
ANN ARBOR - NanoBio Corp. has been named to the annual FierceBiotech Fierce 15 list, designating the University of Michigan spin off as one of the top biotechnology companies in the country. NanoBio has developed a rich pipeline of anti-infective lotions and vaccines to combat a diverse range of bacteria, viruses and fungi, from MRSA
DETROIT - AT&T on Tuesday announced a suite of content delivery and digital media solutions to help companies package, deliver and distribute video and rich multimedia Web content across their networks to the three screens that are core to AT&T's multimedia strategy - the computer, the television and mobile computing devices such as the iPhone
LANSING - Michigan Sen. Patty Birkholz (R-Saugatuck Twp.) talks about where the negotiations stand on the Great Lakes Compact, which would preserve water resources in the Great Lakes region. The package, which will end up at 12 bills including all of the House bills and all but one of the Senate bills, maintains much of