TROY - Behr America is creating a new thermal management portfolio to meet progressively stricter automotive emissions and fuel-economy legislation worldwide. New legislation, high gasoline prices, the drive for energy independence and environmental consciousness are driving major challenges today facing the automotive industry: improving operating efficiencies and gas mileage while improving passenger comfort and safety.
LANSING - A study released by the Union of Concerned Scientists said Midwestern states can create renewable energy more easily than other places in the world, revitalizing the economy and create a healthier environment. The report, "A Bright Future for the Heartland: Powering the Midwest Economy" shows that if Michigan tapped its potential to produce
LANSING - The Department of Treasury issued a requirement Tuesday that gasoline retailers prepay sales tax on gas at 21.3 cents a gallon, the highest level in history, a day after Treasury officials met with oil industry representatives urging a change in the prepayment law so that the state gets more revenue and station owners
DETROIT - DTE Energy received a $5.4 million federal grant through Clean Energy Coalition to fund the conversion of more than 170 gasoline-powered fleet vehicles to run on compressed natural gas. The grant, which was awarded to Clean Energy Coalition?s Green Fleets program by the U.S. Department of Energy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment
LANSING - Rejecting arguments that the proposal was too expensive and that the state law directing the plan did not give enough time for customers to challenge the proposal, the Court of Appeals has upheld a renewable energy plan by Consumers Energy that would call for developing 900 megawatts of electricity produced by renewable resources.
LANSING - There is still time to nominate for the third annual Michigan Green Chemistry Governor's Award. The awards honor industrial, academic, student, and non-profit efforts to green Michigan's economy. Entries must be sent by Aug. 5. Entries must be sent by August 5. Awards will be presented by Governor Rick Snyder during the 2011
LANSING - An annual electric rate increase for customers of Northern States Power Company of $839,000 has been approved by the Public Service Commission. The settlement agreement will affect customers of the Wisconsin-based utility in two counties in the Upper Peninsula bordering Wisconsin. The settlement should end the utility request filing that was initially made
LANSING - The Great Lakes Compact has received has worked in some cases, not so in others, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Wildlife Federation on the initiative's overall progress and effectiveness. Michigan received high marks for the Department of Environmental Quality's on-line Water Withdrawal Assessment tool, which is used to predict
LANSING - Michigan and 26 other states will need to see how power plant emissions are allocated before they will know how new federal rules signed Thursday would affect the state, Department of Environmental Quality Air Quality Division Chief Vinson Hellwig told Gongwer News Service. The new rules, which also still have to go through
WALLOON LAKE - Gas Technologies LLC said Thursday that it has streamlined its GasTechno advanced alcohol, biofuels and chemical plant that profitably converts natural gas to liquids and chemical products for less than $2 million. The company announced its new GasTechno Mini‐GTL gas‐to‐liquids plant packages will range in cost from $1.5 million to $2 million