HOLLAND - An energy era ended April 13 in Holland when 76-year-old James De Young Power Plant stopped burning coal and converted to natural gas. Leftover coal still at JDY will be sold to other organizations as part of the preparation for removal of the coal yard and ash ponds in 2017. “JDY is a
LANSING - The effort is not over yet for creating a new energy policy for Michigan as some 10 plants are expected to shut down over the next two weeks, Sen. Mike Nofs said Monday. "It's not dead," Nofs (R-Battle Creek), chair of the Senate Energy and Technology Committee, told Gongwer News Service. After considerable
WASHINGTON DC - Climate change is a major threat to human health, with extreme heat likely to kill 27,000 Americans annually by 2100, according to a report released by the White House. The report, by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, outlines numerous ways global warming could devastate public health in the U.S. this century.
LANSING - The air pollution rules headed for likely final approval will not see the drastic changes in handling of toxic and potentially toxic chemicals the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality had originally proposed. The final version of the rules approved by the department have some additional exemptions from air toxics permitting but still generally
LANSING - Michigan is extending the deadline for requests for information and proposals as a result of requests from prospective contractors interested in performing an independent risk analysis and independent alternatives analysis related to the pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac, known as Enbridge Line 5. The new deadline will now be April 18 (up
ANN ARBOR - Physicist Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials and electrical & computer engineering at the University of California-Santa Barbara, will discuss the role in played in developing nitride-based blue and green LEDs. His work enabled white-light LEDs and earned him a share of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics. LEDs offer a dramatic reduction
LANSING - Do you know a person or business in Michigan that represents the best in energy efficiency? Nominate them for the Governor's Energy Excellence Awards designed to recognize the innovators, the trendsetters, and those completely committed to energy efficiency. Nominations are due by May 20. Choose from the following categories for a total of eight
DETROIT - DTE Energy received approval from the Detroit City Council Tuesday to develop one of the largest urban solar power arrays in the country on a 10-acre vacant parcel of land in Detroit at the former O'Shea Park, near Interstate 96 and Greenfield Road. The project will generate more than $1 million in tax revenue
ANN ARBOR - More than 700 miles of shoreline in lakes Huron and Michigan are potentially vulnerable to oil spills if a 63-year old pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac ruptures, according to a new University of Michigan computer-modeling study released Thursday. Enbridge Line 5 pipeline moves up to 20 million gallons of light crude
FERNDALE - Professor Donald Carpenter, from Lawrence Technological University, was at the White House water summit last week to detail his work on storm-water runoff. Carpenter, a life-long outdoors enthusiast, realized that the only way to clean up the state’s lakes, streams and rivers is to deal with the run off from the urban and
