Energy
U.P. energy users get short-term rate relief
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The plan also achieves long-term goals of reliability and eliminating out-state utilities from the state’s energy future.
Waste
Michigan environmentalist criticizes new federal coal ash standards
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Michigan environmentalists are disappointed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules on coal ash.
Land
New book details Duluth/Superior street car system
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The physical remnants of this era are gone, but author Aaron Isaacs got his hands on an impressive wealth of research materials rich in interesting details, stories and images.
Air
Great Lakes legal expert discusses challenge to EPA mercury rules
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Michigan’s challenge to EPA emissions rule lands in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Water
New tool simulates climate change impact on Great Lakes shores
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A new tool developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration lets people look at what varying water levels do to a shoreline.
Land
Emerald Ash borer moving on to new target in Ohio
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Ohio scientists say they’ve found evidence that the insect has made its way to a new host: the white fringetree.
Wildlife
Winged Wednesday review: Animal app is great guide
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A team of students and researchers at the University of Michigan has created an app that is a pocket guide for Great Lakes animal species at the region’s parks, museums and zoos.
Water
Video: Pine River cleanup reaches milestone
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Removal of dam rids community of another ugly reminder of decades-long cleanup that is still ongoing.
Energy
Canadian First Nations take lead on clean energy
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Lumos Energy president Chris Henderson has spent the last two-and-a-half decades working, “at the intersection of clean energy, sustainable development, environmental action, economic development, and Aboriginal communities.”