clean energy

Tags: asian carp, clean energy, PWIR, RES

Michigan is certainly in the national limelight this week as Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum criss-cross the state vying for the Republican Presidential nomination. They've had plenty to say, but little has been good news for Michigan's environment, which makes us wonder: Where are the Republicans that Teddy Roosevelt would be proud to endorse?

In this Political Week in Review: 

Tags: Andy Hoffman, clean energy, climate change, Lisa Wozniak

It is not often that I take two days out of my regular work/mom schedule, including a Saturday, to sit in a room at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Tags: clean energy, Clean Energy Jobs, EPA, mercury

In December 2011, the EPA released the nation’s first toxic metal emissions standards. These changes require power plants to reduce emissions of mercury, arsenic, and cadmium.

Tags: clean energy, elections, fracking, Great Lakes, high speed rail, PWIR, Rick Snyder

Rick Snyder was inaugurated as Governor. Dozens of new environmental laws were passed (and rarely for the better). High speed rail is making it's way to Michigan. "Fracking" made it's way into most Michiganders' vocabularies. The Great Lakes were protected with a veto and improved with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal investment, and all while under constant threat from the Asian Carp.

Tags: asian carp, clean energy, coal, Great Lakes, mercury, PWIR, sulfide mining

That beautiful lake in Northern Michigan you love so much? Don’t eat the fish. Elevated levels of mercury - generally a result of coal plant pollution - were reported this week for the Great Lakes and 150 of Michigan’s most remarkable inland lakes. On a more positive note, though, before the Legislature dashed out of Lansing for the holidays, they finally passed a bill to establish greater coordination fighting invasive species in the Great Lakes.