Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/author/laura-fosmire/page/3/)
2011 graduate from Michigan State University. Bachelor of Arts in arts and humanities + journalism. Future graduate student of journalism at Columbia University. Loves politics, things that are green, Anderson Cooper and coffee. Social media enthusiast.
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan is angling for more business in the fishing and tourism industries with two new laws that will increase the number of fish anglers can keep.
One establishes a 72-hour fishing license. The other allows anglers to keep an additional two-day’s possession of fish.
The new laws will take effect April 1, 2011.
Michigan lawmakers are considering bills to give tax breaks for energy efficient buildings.
The requirements also considers the construction process. Raw materials must be made within 300 miles of the builiding site.
And a certain percentage of discarded material must be recycled.
The eastern massasauga, Michigan’s only venomous snake, has candidate status on the federal endangered species list.
The rayed bean, a freshwater mussel, has similar status.
Environmental sensors provide wind speed, temperature and air pressure data at 14 locations that are trouble spots for black ice, blowing snow and lake-effect snow. The devices are used to improve road safety.
The state has already approved one controversial mine in the Upper Peninsula, and now other companies are poised to start a similar lengthy permit application process.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment approved a permit for the Kennecott Minerals Co. Eagle project in the Yellow Dog Plains earlier this year.
By Laura Fosmire
Jan.23, 2010
LANSING, Mich. — The reactions are pouring in: Some restaurant owners are fuming about Michigan’s new smoke-free law that takes effect May 1. “The state has stepped in and said, ‘We know more about the hospitality business than you do.’ Many of them are very upset,” said Andy Deloney, the Michigan Restaurant Association public affairs director. Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed the bill in December that prohibits smoking in public places such as bars, restaurants, hotels and other businesses. The only establishments exempted are the gaming floors in Detroit casinos.