(MI) Detroit Free Press – Consumers Energy customers will begin paying more on their bills to help pay for the utility’s efforts to reach the state-mandated requirement of generating 10% of its power from renewable energy sources.

(IL) Chicago Tribune – Naperville fleet vehicles may soon run on residents’ yard clippings under an innovative plan to produce renewable energy.

(NY) The New York Times – For decades, the big oil companies and the farm lobby have been fighting about ethanol, with the farmers pushing to produce more of it and the refiners arguing it was a boondoggle that would do little to solve the country’s energy problems.

(NY) The New York Times – The difference between the old, frenetic Times Square and the newly reconfigured, still frenetic Times Square became clear on Tuesday: now you can pull up a chair to watch the show.

(NY) The New York Times – Two more New Yorkers have died with confirmed cases of swine flu, the city’s health commissioner said on Tuesday, bringing the city’s total number of deaths related to the virus to four. Emergency room visits and hospitalizations also continued to rise.

(MI) The Saginaw News – A crew spreads clean dirt onto the grounds of West Michigan Park on W. Michigan Ave. in Saginaw Township. Crews removed a layer of dioxin-polluted soil and is replacing it with clean fill as part of The West Michigan Park Soil Removal Project.

(MI) The Holland Sentinel – Water levels in Lake Macatawa and Lake Michigan have risen 12 inches since May 2008, making life easier for local boaters yet tougher for those with lakefront property or wanting beach blanket space.
Anchorage Marina Manager Cary Masters said after near-record lows just a few years ago, he’s excited to see water levels rebounding. He said the rise has saved his Park Township marina a significant amount of money.

(ON) The Toronto Star – The province has rightly committed to protecting the woodland caribou, a threatened species that lives in a remote part of northern Ontario. However, the government’s plan may fall short of its objective.

(MI) The Detroit News – The problems facing Pontiac run as deep as the river that streams invisibly beneath its downtown streets.  So it’s with some irony that a few city officials are looking toward that little-known stretch of the Clinton River — enclosed in 1963 to alleviate flooding — as a source for the troubled city’s revival.

(ON) The Toronto Star – An aquatic invader is camping out on the banks of the Trent-Severn Waterway, and from the sounds of it, is getting very comfortable.