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RheTech Receives Environmental Excellence Award

WHITMORE LAKE – Polypropylene-based compounds manufacturer RheTech LLC has received the Pollution Prevention Award from the Washtenaw County Environmental Excellence Partnership Program. The Environmental Excellence Partnership Program (E2P2) recognizes businesses and non-profits that provide leadership in environmental protection and practice environmentally sound behavior in the areas of water quality protection, waste reduction and recycling, and pollution prevention.

By |2016-06-09T20:15:03-04:00June 9th, 2016|Clean Update|
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The Golf Club’s Environmental Metamorphasis Focus Of Sustainable Business Forum

BENTON HARBOR - Michigan’s Great Southwest Sustainable Business Forum will host a program and tour at The Golf Club at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor June 13 to tell the story behind one of Michigan's most significant redevelopment projects in a generation.   Host to last month's 2016 Senior PGA Championship, the Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course

By |2016-06-09T20:01:22-04:00June 9th, 2016|Clean Update, New Products / Contracts|
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U-M Report: Hypoxic Dead Zone Size Of Connecticut To Appear This Summer In Gulf Of Mexico

ANN ARBOR - Farmland runoffs containing fertilizers and livestock waste from the Upper Midwest will create this summer an oxygen-depleted “dead zone” the size of Connecticut in the Gulf of Mexico that could suffocate marine life in the 5,898 square mile hypoxic zone. This forecast was released Thursday by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

By |2016-06-10T12:16:38-04:00June 9th, 2016|Clean Update, Featured, News|
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NextChallenge: Smart Cities – A Connected Tech Competition For Urban Areas

GRAND RAPIDS - Today's cities are facing many common challenges in the areas of safety, emissions, accessibility, and congestion. Detroit's NextEnergy thinks innovation is an important mechanism to proactively address the challenges facing cities to identify opportunities for new business models. Therefore, the non-profit has developed a national competition NextChallenge: Smart Cities which focuses on

By |2016-06-08T14:35:27-04:00June 8th, 2016|Clean Update, Connected Tech, Michigan Mobile Musings|
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Michigan Senate Committee Reports Energy Bills That Include Net Metering

LANSING - Two bills making major changes to Michigan’s utility and electric energy system, but still maintaining some provisions from the 2008 energy legislation especially with small generators of alternative energy,  were reported to the full Senate this afternoon by the Senate Energy and Technology Committee. The bills are the latest substitutes to SB 437

By |2016-05-25T20:14:30-04:00May 25th, 2016|Clean Update, Politics|
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Hyundai Aiming for No. 2 In Green Vehicle Market

DETROIT - Hyundai has big plans for the “eco” market, with the maker planning to introduce 26 new hybrid, plug-in, battery-electric and fuel-cell  vehicles between now and 2020, a blitz that begins with this year’s launch of the new Ioniq model. The challenge, said the head of the Korean carmaker’s green car program, will be

By |2016-05-25T19:35:38-04:00May 25th, 2016|Clean Update|
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Next Contaminated Water Crisis Not Flint, But Ann Arbor

ANN ARBOR - For the second time in as many weeks, an environmental remediation professional is warning that people living near Ann Arbor's West Park could be exposed to the toxic chemical dioxane. Dan Bicknell, president of Global Environment Alliance LLC, recently investigated the potential for basements in the West Park area to flood with

By |2016-05-22T12:59:35-04:00May 22nd, 2016|Clean Update, Politics|
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Dingell, Miller Urge Snyder To Veto Waukesha Lake Michigan Water Withdrawal Plan

LANSING - U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell and U.S. Rep. Candice Miller joined in a statement Thursday urging Governor Rick Snyder to vote against a plan to allow Waukesha, Wisconsin, to draw water from Lake Michigan. A regional advisory body had given its nod to the plan this week with some substantial changes to the city's

By |2016-05-20T12:46:31-04:00May 20th, 2016|Clean Update, Politics|
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Report: Michigan Energy Could Be Cheaper This Summer

LANSING - Michigan Energy supplies should be both plentiful and in some cases cheaper this upcoming summer, an analysis released Thursday by the Michigan Agency for Energy said. Some of the forecast is weather dependent. If the summer proves extremely hot, that could boost the use of electricity. Otherwise, the assessment anticipates overall electricity sales

By |2016-05-20T12:38:58-04:00May 20th, 2016|Clean Update, Politics|
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Tesla May Need Up To Nearly $2 Billion To Get Model 3 Into Production

WASHINGTON DC - Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has laid out an ambitious launch plan for the upcoming Model 3 that would transform it into a mainstream automaker by 2018 – but the California battery-carmaker will need anywhere from $1.4 billion to $1.7 billion to fund the new model’s rollout and production plans, Tesla said.

By |2016-05-20T08:30:25-04:00May 19th, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles, Clean Update|
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