You wouldn’t site, and you wouldn’t build and construct pipelines underneath the Straits today.” Attorney General Bill Schuette [Begging the question: If a state-of-the-art, 21st Century pipeline presents an unacceptable risk, why is the continued use of an aging, mid-20th Century pipeline acceptable?] Many compelling reasons exist to terminate the use of Line 5, the …
2016 Platforms: “We will enforce the original intent of the Clean Water Act, not it’s distortion by EPA regulations. We will likewise forbid the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide” Republican Platform 2016 The Republican platform largely denies the existence of climate change, expressly rejects the Paris Climate Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol, and calls for …
Millions in consumer savings, thousands of good jobs and new resources for communities across the state- passing new legislation to further grow these benefits should be a slam dunk.
Register today! Please join us for the 2016 Michigan Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Conference at Oakland University this coming Tuesday, May 10. Business and policy leaders will be at Oakland University (OU) in Rochester Tuesday, May 10 for the 2016 Michigan CHP Conference. The day-long event will explore the use of combined heat and …
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Remembering Earth Day Forty-six years ago, over 20 million people participated in the nation’s first Earth Day. Pioneered by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day was one of the first of what became to be known as environmental teach-ins. Senator Nelson sought to confront the growing list of environmental issues facing the nation and the …
“Companies are very interested in how the Switch deal gets done,” said Liesl Clark, president of the Lansing-based Energy Innovation Business Council. But stepping up next with additional renewable investments could be private companies across a range of industry types and sizes, from GM and Steelcase to Black Star Farms LLC winery. Also getting into the game: Municipalities such as Lansing, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, said Clark, who also is a founding principal with 5 Lakes Energy, a Lansing consulting firm.
Besides Black Star, a number of other wineries are installing solar, Clark said, including Chateau Chantal Winery, Good Neighbor and Round Barn Winery.
The EPA Clean Power Plan – are we better off without it? Clean energy proponents were dismayed – to say the least – by the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to delay implementation of EPA Clean Power Plan rule limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. It was an unprecedented action by the court; for …
2016 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook Bloomberg New Energy Finance issued its annual assessment of the state of sustainable energy in the United States. The Factbook provides considerable detail and analysis of energy trends and documents the decoupling of energy consumption and economic growth – the U.S. economy grew by 10% since 2007 while primary energy …
Advanced energy does often make you think about renewables – wind and solar. But it’s important to remember that energy efficiency is the least cost alternative. So energy efficiency needs to be a part of that advanced energy definition.
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