LANSING - The Public Service Commission has approved a settlement agreement granting Consumers Energy Company a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct natural gas facilities to serve new customers in Gaines Township in Kent County and Leighton Township in Allegan County. Under the terms of the settlement (Case U-17645), the two townships grant
LANSING - Attorney General Bill Schuette has filed a class-action lawsuit against AmeriGas under Michigan's Consumer Protection Act charging the company gouged customers with high-priced propane during the ferocious 2013-14 winter. In a separate action, Schuette said he has reached an agreement with Ferrellgas to provide some 600 customers with more than $100,000 in cost
EAST LANSING - Volodymyr Tarabara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Michigan State University, has been named a Fulbright Scholar and will conduct research on water quality control in the Republic of Georgia. The highly coveted Fulbright grants are issued by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
LANSING - Urban farms with livestock cannot be verified as following proper environmental practices under standards approved, with some reservations, Wednesday by the Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. The new Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program standards follow recent generally accepted agriculture management practices that say category 4 farms, those in high population residential areas,
DETROIT - Chesapeake Energy Corporation has been ordered to stand trial on racketeering and false pretenses charges, Attorney General Bill Schuette said on Tuesday. Cheboygan County District Judge Maria Barton cleared the way for the Oklahoma-based firm to face trial for allegedly defrauding private landowners across the state by basically tricking them to commit to
ANN ARBOR -- Michigan League of Conservation Voters announced Tuesday this year?s honorees for the Second Annual Innovation in Conservation Awards Dinner. Conservation champions and retiring members of Congress, Senator Carl Levin and Congressman John Dingell, will receive Michigan LCV?s Lifetime Achievement Awards, Ford Motor Company will be honored as Business of the Year, and
DETROIT - NextEnergy will be a tour stop at ITS World Congress Detroit, where it will demonstrate the future for smart energy and transportation technology with Qualcomm and Chrysler Group. Jean Redfield, NextEnergy President and CEO, said she expects upwards of 10,000 professionals to be in Detroit next week for the conference with about a
DETROIT - NextEnergy has awarded a $35,000 Michigan Accelerating Technology (MATch) Energy Grant to University of Michigan Professor Jeff Sakamoto for development of an ultra-high energy, safe, low-cost, solid-state electrolyte technology for energy storage. The new technology will be used in an all solid-state rechargeable battery, resulting in higher vehicle range and miles per charge
LANSING ? The Department of Environmental Quality is offering $10,000 in grants to help Michigan institutions develop sustainable, green laboratory practices and projects. The funding is available through DEQ?s Michigan Green Labs Initiative, a collaborative grant effort to assist institutions and share best practices for minimizing the environmental impacts of their laboratory operations. The project
ANN ARBOR ? Sakti announced that it has produced a battery cell on fully scalable equipment with over 1100 Watt hours per liter (Wh/l) in volumetric energy density. This translates to more than double the usage time in a wearable device like a smartwatch, from 3.5 h to more than 9 h. It also translates